Observing Extreme Environmental Events | Stats + Stories Episode 135

Stats + Stories

• Episode: Observing Extreme Environmental Events | Stats + Stories Episode 135
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• Duration: 00:31:00
• Published: 2020-04-16 16:16

Dan Cooley is a Professor or Statistics at Colorado State University and is a past member and chair of the ASA’s Advisory Committee on Climate Change Policy.  Dan’s research is primarily focuses on developing statistical methods for the study of extreme values and is largely motivated by problems in atmospheric science. Dr. Michael F. Wehner is a senior staff scientist in the Computational Research Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Wehner’s current research concerns the behavior of extreme weather events in a changing climate, especially heat waves, intense precipitation, drought and tropical cyclones.