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A Bayesian statistical method to estimate the climatology of extreme temperature under multiple scenarios: the ANKIALE package.

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Title: A Bayesian statistical method to estimate the climatology of extreme temperature under multiple scenarios: the ANKIALE package.
Authors: Robin, Yoann, Vrac, Mathieu, Ribes, Aurélien, Barbaux, Occitane, Naveau, Philippe
Source: Geoscientific Model Development; 2026, Vol. 19 Issue 6, p2349-2372, 24p
Subject Terms: BAYESIAN analysis, CLIMATE extremes, CLIMATE change, EXTREME weather, PYTHON programming language, MARKOV chain Monte Carlo, ATMOSPHERIC models
Geographic Terms: EUROPE
Abstract: We describe an improved method and the associated package for estimating the statistics of temperature extremes in a Bayesian framework. Building on previous work, this method uses a range of climate model simulations to provide a prior of the real-world changes, and then considers observations to derive a posterior estimate of past and future changes. The new version described in this study makes it possible to process several scenarios simultaneously, while keeping one single counterfactual world (i.e., the world without human influence). We offer a free licensed, easy-to-use command-line tool called ANKIALE (ANalysis of Klimate with bayesian Inference: AppLication to extreme Events), which can be used to reproduce the analyses presented here, as well as to process user-defined events. ANKIALE is based on a python code, but is designed to be used from the command line interface. ANKIALE is natively parallel, enabling it to be used on a personal computer as well as on a supercomputer. To derive the posterior, ANKIALE uses state of art MCMC-methods to sample the posterior distribution. The potential of this method and tool is illustrated via an application to maximum temperature over Europe between 1850 and 2100 (the posterior is derived from ERA5, covering the period from 1940 to 2024), at a 0.25° resolution, for a range of four emission scenarios, including a particular focus on the city of Paris (France). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:We describe an improved method and the associated package for estimating the statistics of temperature extremes in a Bayesian framework. Building on previous work, this method uses a range of climate model simulations to provide a prior of the real-world changes, and then considers observations to derive a posterior estimate of past and future changes. The new version described in this study makes it possible to process several scenarios simultaneously, while keeping one single counterfactual world (i.e., the world without human influence). We offer a free licensed, easy-to-use command-line tool called ANKIALE (ANalysis of Klimate with bayesian Inference: AppLication to extreme Events), which can be used to reproduce the analyses presented here, as well as to process user-defined events. ANKIALE is based on a python code, but is designed to be used from the command line interface. ANKIALE is natively parallel, enabling it to be used on a personal computer as well as on a supercomputer. To derive the posterior, ANKIALE uses state of art MCMC-methods to sample the posterior distribution. The potential of this method and tool is illustrated via an application to maximum temperature over Europe between 1850 and 2100 (the posterior is derived from ERA5, covering the period from 1940 to 2024), at a 0.25° resolution, for a range of four emission scenarios, including a particular focus on the city of Paris (France). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:1991959X
DOI:10.5194/gmd-19-2349-2026