Abstract: A set of generalized and improved reliability bounds is developed to obtain very narrow upper and lower limits of the probability of failure of a structural system with known performance functions and basic variables. It ...

Abstract: Global monthly and daily precipitation extremes are examined in relation to the El Niño?Southern Oscillation phenomenon. For each month around the annual cycle and in each 2.5° grid block, extremes in the Global Precipitation ...

Abstract: omputing resources donated by volunteers have generated the first superensemble of regional climate model results, in which the Hadley Centre Regional Model, version 3P (HadRM3P), and Hadley Centre Atmosphere Model, version ...