" Average behavior is often studied, with well developed techniques from the field of statistics allowing for inferences to be readily made. However, in many atmospheric, hydrologic, and other Geophysical problems extremes are often of great interest. .... "
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In estimating the distribution of extreme events, I also highlight the paper by Ailiot et al., recently appeared in Water Resources Research, that generalizes the maximum likelihood and method of moments for estimating the parameters and high quantiles of the GEV distribution. At doi:10.1029/2010WR009417, 2011
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