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Dr. Philippe Naveau
http://amath.colorado.edu/faculty/naveau/
Philippe.Naveau@colorado.edu

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Publications:
Submitted
C. Ammann and Naveau P.. A Statistical Volcanic Forcing-Scenario Generator for Climate Simulations.
M. Vrac and Naveau P.. Stochastic downscaling of precipitation: From dry events to heavy rainfalls Submitted.
Naveau P., Guillou A., D. Cooley and J. Diebolt. Modeling Pairwise Dependence of Maxima in Space. Submitted.
A. Guillou, Naveau P., D. Diebolt and P. Ribereau, Return Level Bounds for Extreme Values, Submitted.
Vincent Jomelli, Georg Hoffmann, Naveau P., Daniel Brunstein, Delphine Grancher, Vincent Favier, Antoine Rabatel. Evidences of Nina- like wet and cold conditions during the Little Ice Age in the tropical Andes, (submitted).
Naveau P., Poncet P. and Cooley D. First-order variograms for extreme bivariate random vectors. Submitted.
Naveau P., Jomelli V., Cooley D., Rabatel A. Modeling Uncertainties in Lichenometry Studies. Accepted.
2007
Naveau P. and P. Poncet, State-space Models for Maxima Precipitation. Revue de Statistique Appliquee, in press. (PDF)
Emmanuelle Puceat, Christophe Lecuyer, Yannick Donnadieu, Naveau P., Henri Cappetta, Gilles Ramstein and Brian T. Huber. Fish tooth d18O revising Late Cretaceous meridional SST gradients In press.
D. Cooley, D. Nychka and Naveau P., Bayesian Spatial Modeling of Extreme Precipitation Return Levels, Journal of The American Statistical Association (in press). (PDF)
D. Allard and Naveau P., Simulating and analyzing Spatial Skew Normal random fields, Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods. Volume 36, Issue 9, 2007. (PDF)
Furrer R. and Naveau P. Statistical Properties of Probability Weighted Moments. Statistics and Probability Letters, 77 (2007) 190-195. (PDF)
2006
Borchi F., Naveau P., P. Keckhut and A. Hauchecorne. A Statistical Analysis of the Influence of the Vortex Breakdown on Artic Total Column Ozone Time Series. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 68 (2006) 1383-1395. (PDF)
P. Yiou, P. Ribereau, Naveau P., M. Nogaj and R. Brazdil. Statistical analysis of floods in Bohemia (Czech Republic) since 1827, Hydrological Sciences Journal, 51, 930-945. (PDF)
A. Juillet-Leclerc, S. Thiria, N. Le Bec, T. Delcroix, Naveau P., D. Blamar t and T. Correge, SPCZ migration and ENSO events during the XXth centur y as revealed by multi-proxies analyses of a Fiji massive coral, Geophysical Research Letters, (vol 33). (PDF)
P.A. Danis, V. Masson-Delmotte, M. Stievenard, M.T. Guillemin, V. Daux, Naveau P. and U. von Grafenstein. Reconstruction of past precipitation d18O using tree-ring cellulose d18O and d13C: a calibration study near Lac d'Annecy, France, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (In Press), 2006 (PDF)
D. Cooley, Naveau P. and P. Poncet Variograms for spatial max-stable random fields. Chapter of the book Statistics for dependent data (Lecture Notes In Statistics, Springer). In press. (PDF)
M. Nogaj, P. Yiou, S. Parey, F. Malek and Naveau P.. Intensity and Frequency of Temperature Extremes over the North Atlantic Region, Geophysical Research Letters. In press. (PDF)
Cooley D., Naveau P. and Jomelli V. A Bayesian Hierarchical Extreme Value Model for Lichenometry. Environmetrics, 2006, vol 17, p 555-574 (PDF)
2005
Naveau P., M. Nogaj and C. Ammann and P. Yiou and D. Cooley and V. Jomelli, Statistical Analysis of Climate Extremes, Comptes rendus Geosciences de l'Academie des Sciences, 2005, 337, pp 1013-1022 (PDF)
A. Rabatel, V. Jomelli, P. Naveau, B. Francou, D. Granche. Dating of Little Ice Age glacier fluctuations in the tropical Andes: Charquini glaciers, Bolivia, 16°S. Comptes Rendus Geosciences de l'Academie des Sciences, 2005, 337:5, pp 1311-1322. ( PDF )
Naveau P., Ammann C. Statistical distributions of ice core sulfate from climatically relevant volcanic eruptions. (2005) Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol.32, No.5. (PDF)
Naveau P., Genton M. and Shen X. A Skewed Kalman filter, the Journal of Multivariate Analysis Volume 94, Issue 2, pages 382-400, 2005 (PDF)
2004
Naveau P., Genton M. and Amman C. "Time series analysis with a skewed Kalman filter," in Skew-Elliptical Distributions and Their Applications: A Journey Beyond Normality, Genton, M. G., Ed., Chapman & Hall / CRC, Boca Raton, FL, pp. 259-278, 2004.
Naveau P. and Oh, H.S. Polynomial wavelet regression for images with irregular boundaries, IEEE Transactions On Image Processing Vol: 13, Issue: 6, pp 773- 781, 2004
Naveau P. , Allard D. Modeling Skewness in Spatial Data Analysis without Data Transformation. Geostatistics Banff 2004. Proceedings of the Seventh International Geostatistics Congress, September 26 - October 1, 2004, Banff, Canada Editor(s) Leuangthong & Deutsch Kluwer academic publishers
Daniel Cooley, Vincent Jomelli, Philippe Naveau. Spatio-temporal Analysis of Extreme Values from Lichenometric Studies and their Relationships to Climate TIES 2004: The International Environmetrics Society and ACCURACY 2004: 6th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment
2003
Naveau P. (2003) Almost Sure Relative Stability of the Maximum of a Stationary sequence, Advances in Applied Probability. Volume 35 , Number 3. pp721-736.
Naveau P. and M. Moncrieff. A Statistical Formulation of Convective Mass Fluxes. Quaterly Journal of Royal Meteorology Society Vol. 129 JULY 2003 Part A No. 592, p2217-2233 PDF
Ammann C. and Naveau P. Multi-decadal Periodicity in Tropical Explosive Volcanism. PDF Published: © 2003, American Geophysical Union Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 30, No. 5, 1210-1029, 2003

Naveau P., Ammann, C., Oh H.S., and W. Guo (2003): An automatic statistical methodology to extract pulse like forcing factors in climatic time series: Application to volcanic events. In: Robock A. (Ed.), Volcanism and the Earth's Atmosphere, Geophysical Monograph 139, pages 177-186. PDF © 2003, American Geophysical Union.
Oh H.S., Ammann, C., Naveau P., D. Nychka and B. Otto-Bliesner. (Volume 65, Issue 2, January 2003, Pages 191-201) Multi-resolution time series analysis applied to solar irradiance and climate reconstructions. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-terrestrial Physics PDF
Naveau P. , Furrer R., Keckhut P. The spatio-temporal influence of the vortex on Arctic Total Column Ozone variability. The ISI International Conference on Environmental Statistics and Health. Editors:Jorge Mateu, David Holland, Wenceslao Gonzalez-Manteiga. 2003 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. p131-139.
2002
Katz R., Parlange M. and Naveau P. (2002) Extremes in hydrology. Advances in Water Resources. PDF Vol. 25, 1287-1304. (Also a book chapter in 25th Years of Advances in Water Resources: Editors: C.T. Miller, M.B. Parlange, S.M. Hassanizadeh, Special 25th Anniversary book by Elsevier.)
Naveau P., Vrac M., Genton M., Chedin A. and Diday E. (2002). Two Statistical Methods For Improving the Analysis of Large Climatic Data Sets: General Skewed Kalman Filters and Distributions of Distributions. Proceedings of The Fourth European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, geoENV2002 (Barcelona).
2001
Oh H.S., Naveau P. and Lee G. (2001). Polynomial Boundary Treatment for Wavelet Regression. Biometrika, Vol. 88, No. 1, pp 291-298. (PDF)
Vrac M., Diday E., Naveau P. and Chédin A. (2001) Mixture of distributions of distributions Proceedings de la Société Francophone de Classification. (PDF)
Naveau P., R. Katz and M. Moncrieff (2001). Extremes and Climate: an Introduction and a Case Study. ``Notes de l'Institut Pierre Simon Laplace" ISSN 1626-8334, vol. 11, pp 4-22. (PDF)
2000
Naveau P., Moncrieff M., Yano J.I. and Wu X. (2000). Exploratory Statistical Analysis of Tropical Oceanic Convection Using Discrete Wavelet Transforms. Studies in Statistics and the Atmospheric Sciences, Lecture Notes in Statistics, Springer-Verlag, p117-132, ISBN 0-387-98757-6.
1999
Naveau P., Brockwell P., and Nychka D. (1999). Dependence Structure of Random Wavelet Coefficients in Terms of Cumulants, Curve and Surface Fitting, Vanderbilt University Press Nashville TN, pp 343-350, ISBN 0-8265-1357-3. (PDF)
1998
Naveau P. (1998) Almost sure convergence of the maximum of a stationary sequence and asymptotic properties of probability weighted moments. Dissertation (Ph.D.)-Colorado State University.
1997
Naveau P. (1997) Comparison Between the Chernoff and Factorial Moment Bounds for Discrete Random Variables. The American Statistician. Vol. 51, No. 1, pp 40-41.

Conferences

Organization of Colloquiums

Session convener

Oral Presentations and Posters
2005
Naveau P., D. Cooley and P. Poncet. MODELING SPATIAL DEPENDENCE FOR EXTREMES IN CLIMATE STUDIES. Extreme Value Analysis. Gothenburg, Sweden, August 15-19 2005
Cooley D., Nychka D. and P. Naveau. Producing a Precipitation Return Levels Map. Extreme Value Analysis. Gothenburg, Sweden, August 15-19 2005
M. Nogaj, P. Yiou, D. Dacunha-Castelle and Naveau P., ??? Extreme Value Analysis. Gothenburg, Sweden, August 15-19 2005
GUILLOU A., DIEBOLT J. and NAVEAU P. RETURN LEVEL BOUNDS FOR EXTREME VALUES Extreme Value Analysis. Gothenburg, Sweden, August 15-19 2005
M. Nogaj, P. Yiou, D. Dacunha-Castelle and Naveau P., Analysis of non-stationary extreme events in a climatological context. Workshop on Risk Analysis and Extreme Values. Paris, France, June 27-July 1, 2005
A. Juillet-Leclerc, S. Thiria, T. Delcroix, P. Naveau, D. Blamart and T. Correge. Seasurface temperature and salinity reconstruction in Fiji during the last century from muti-proxies of coral skeleton using neural network European Geosciences Union. General Assembly 2005. Vienna, Austria, 24 - 29 April 2005 (Poster)
N. Fauchereau, P. Yiou, M. Nogaj and Naveau P., North atlantic weather regimes, NAO and precipitation and temperature extremes overEurope European Geosciences Union. General Assembly 2005. Session NH9.09/NP4.06 Extreme Events: Causes and Consequences. Vienna, Austria, 24 - 29 April 2005 (Poster)
N. Fauchereau, P. Yiou, M. Nogaj and Naveau P., Observed precipitation and temperature extremes over Europe and North Atlantic weather regimes European Geosciences Union. General Assembly 2005. Session NH9.09/NP4.06 Extreme Events: Causes and Consequences. Vienna, Austria, 24 - 29 April 2005 (Poster)
D. Cooley, Naveau P., P. Poncet. Statistical Modeling of the Spatial Dependence between annual maxima of precipitation. European Geosciences Union. General Assembly 2005. Session NH9.09/NP4.06 Extreme Events: Causes and Consequences. Vienna, Austria, 24 - 29 April 2005
D. Cooley, Naveau P., V. Jomelli. Extreme Value Models for dating Moraines in Bolivia. European Geosciences Union. General Assembly 2005, Session NH9.09/NP4.06 Extreme Events: Causes and Consequences. Vienna, Austria, 24 - 29 April 2005 (Poster)
D. Cooley, D. Nychka, Naveau P. Extreme Return Levels for precipiatation in Colorado. European Geosciences Union. General Assembly 2005, Session NH9.09/NP4.06 Extreme Events: Causes and Consequences. Vienna, Austria, 24 - 29 April 2005 (Poster)
D. Cooley, P. Naveau and P. Poncet Estimating Spatial Dependence in Fields of Extremes STATDEP 2005, STATISTICS FOR DEPENDENT DATA, January 26-29, 2005 Paris-Malakoff. (Poster)
2004
Chaochao Gao, Alan Robock, Caspar Ammann and Naveau P.. Global Volcanic Forcing for the Last 2000 Years Derived From Multiple Ice Core Records 2004 General Assembly of IAVCEI Pucon, Chili, 14-20 Nov 2004
Naveau P., Ammann C., Batistad B. and Oh H.S. STATISTICAL MODELING OF THE VOLCANIC FORCING DISTRIBUTION AND ITS IMPACT ON CLIMATE 2004 General Assembly of IAVCEI Pucon, Chili, 14-20 Nov 2004
Cooley D., Naveau P. and Poncet P.. Spatial Scaling of Extremes in Climate Models 2004 Graybill Conference at Colorado State University Fort-Collins, USA, June 2004
Naveau P., Allard D. and Genton M. Modeling Skewness in Geosciences: Applications to Kalman filtering and spatial interpolation Geophysical Statistics Project Lecture Series in Statistics at NCAR Boulder, USA, June 2004
Ammann, C.M., R. Tomas, E.R. Wahl, P. Naveau and H.-S. Oh, 2004 Volcanic markers and solar trends over the Last Millennium: Can we compare Tree Ring Chronologies with Global Climate System Models? A critical evaluation Tree Ring Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, US 2004
Naveau P. and Poncet P. Kriging extreme climate events The Sixth edition of the joint meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Bernoulli Society Barcelona, Spain July 26-31 2004
Naveau P. and Schneider U. Folding extremes and threshold selection when modeling precipitation extremes Third International Symposium on Extreme Value Analysis: Theory and Practice Aveiro, Portugal July 19-23 2004
Oh H., Ammann C. and Naveau P. ` Spatio-temporal analysis of the solar fingerprint over the past Millennium in paleoclimate reconstructions and a coupled climate model European Geosciences Union 1st General Assembly Nice, France, 25 - 30 April 2004
Schneider U. and Naveau P. Threshold selection for modeling precipitation extremes European Geosciences Union 1st General Assembly Nice, France, 25 - 30 April 2004
Naveau P. Vincent Jomelli, Dan Cooley, Kenji Osé Etienne Cossart. A General Probability Model for Analyzing Lichens Growth in the Alps "Holocene climate in the Alps : Toward a common framework ?" The French Moutain Institute and the Savoy University Aix Les Bains (France), 15,18 january 2004
Naveau P. and Schneider U. Threshold selection for modeling exceedances over high thresholds Power laws in probability and statistics CIRM, Luminy, March 22-26, 2004
Daniel Cooley, Vincent Jomelli, Philippe Naveau. Spatio-temporal Analysis of Extreme Values from Lichenometric Studies and their Relationships to Climate TIES 2004: The International Environmetrics Society and ACCURACY 2004: 6th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment
Ammann C., Oh H.S., Naveau P.. Fingerprints of solar irradiance changes during the last Millennium: Impact of different background trends on the detection in transient climate simulations. SORCE Science Meeting, Sonoma California (2004) .
Naveau P. and Allard D. Modeling Skewness in Spatial Data Analyis without Data Transformation. Seventh International Geostatistics Congress in Banff 2004
C.M. Ammann, P. Naveau, H.-S. Oh. The Role of Nature in Future Climate Change: Spatio-temporal statistical analysis of volcanic eruptions and solar irradiance changes and their impacts on past and future climate Seventh International Geostatistics Congress in Banff 2004
2003
Oh H.-S., C.M. Ammann, P. Naveau P., R. Tomas and F. Joos. Statistical properties and spatial distribution of the low-frequency solar signal in paleoclimate reconstructions and a coupled model. American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2003 Fall Meeting San Fransisco. Invited talk.
Naveau P. , Amman C., H.S. Oh. Stochastic simulation of large explosive volcanic eruptions and their impacts on climate American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2003 Fall Meeting San Fransisco.
Cooley D., Jomelli, V., Naveau P. Extreme value for paleoclimatic data sets with an application in lichenometry American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2003 Fall Meeting San Fransisco.
Jomelli V., Cooley D., Naveau P. The Little Ice Age in the tropical Andes. American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2003 Fall Meeting San Fransisco. Invited talk.
Naveau P. , Furrer R., Keckhut P. The spatio-temporal influence of the vortex on Arctic Total Column Ozone variability. The ISI International Conference on Environmental Statistics and Health. 2003 Santiago de Compostela.
Ammann, C.M., P. Naveau, H.-S. Oh, F. Joos, S. Gerber, D.S. Schimel, and B.L. Otto-Bliesner, 2003: Multi-resolution methods for extracting fingerprints of external forcing during the last Millennium from model and proxy data. IUGG, Sapporo, Japan, Session MC14 invited presentation. International Union of Geophysics and Geodesy (2003)
Ammann, C.M., and P. Naveau, 2003: A statistical study of explosive volcanism in the tropics: Stochastic evidence of an underlying physical process? IUGG, Sapporo, Japan, Session JSS01: Hagiwara Symposium. International Union of Geophysics and Geodesy (2003)
Naveau P. and C. Ammann. A Statistical Methodology to Extract Pulse-like Signal in Climatic Times Series Colorado-Wyoming Chapter American Statistical Association (Chapter meeting April 2003, Boulder)
Ammann C., Robock A., Gao C. and P. Naveau. Ice cored derived volcanic forcing data set for general circulation model simulations InterIce Workshop at the 7th International Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology, Milan, Italy. August 25-29 2003. (Poster)
2002
Naveau P. and Keckhut P. How to Estimate the Breakpoint Vortex Timing in Arctic Ozone time series? Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society (Genova, Italy June 2002)
Naveau P. and Vrac M. Two Statistical Methods For Improving the Analysis of Large Climatic Data Sets: General Skewed Kalman Filters and Distributions of Distributions. The Fourth European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications,geoENV2002 (Barcelona, Spain, 2002). Plenary Invited Talk
Turbulence in a Shear-Driven Nocturnal Surface Layer as Observed by Doppler Lidar, Rawinsondes and Sonic Anemometer during the CASES 99 Experiment The International Laser Radar Conference (Quebec, Canada July 2002, research presented by P. Drobinski). Also presented at the 15th Conference on Boundary Layer and Turbulence (Poster)
2001
Statistical analysis of the influence of large volcanic eruptions on climate, XXXIIIèmes Journées de Statistique (Nantes, France, 2001). Plenary Invited Talk
Mixture of distributions of distributions. The 8th meeting of the ``Société Francophone de Classification" (Guadeloupe, France, December 2001, research presented by Mathieu Vrac)).
The Possible Influence of Large Volcanic Eruptions on El-Nino, 8th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology (Luneberg, Germany, 2001).
Statistical Modeling of Occurrences of Large Volcanic Explosive Volcanism in the Tropics during the Last 6 Centuries, General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society (Nice, France, 2001).
2000
A Statistical Model for Mesoscale Clouds Based on Point Processes, 5th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society for Probability and Mathematical Statistics and 63rd Annual Meeting of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Guannajuato, Mexico, 2000).
A Probabilistic and Spatial Model for Mesoscale Clouds Based on a Wavelet Decomposition, International Union of Radio Sciences (Boulder, USA, 2000).
Modeling Different Clouds Regimes with a Stochastic Model based on Extreme Vertical Wind Velocity Trajectories, General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society (Nice, France, 2000).
1999
Study of the Higher Cumulants of Random WaveletsCoefficients of Non-Gaussian and Non-Linear processes, American Statistical Association Spring meeting (Boulder, USA, 1999).
Modeling Extreme Winds Velocities in the Western Pacific, Joint Statistical Meetings (Baltimore, USA, 1999).
Statistical Analysis of the Maximum Vertical Wind Velocity in Deep Convection in the Western Pacific, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (Birmingham, UK, 1999),
Dependence Structure of Random Wavelets Coefficients in Terms of Cumulants, Curves and Surfaces Fourth International Conference (Saint-Malo, France, 1999). (Poster)