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Ms Kate Saunders
The University of Melbourne
Kate Saunders is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne interested in using extreme value theory to statistically model Australian rainfall extremes.
Research Interests:
Climate science
Extreme value theory
Spatial statistics
Prizes, awards and special recognition
2017
Challenge: “Prediction of Extremal Precipitation” was awarded to Kate Saunders. Awarded from the Extreme Value Analysis Conference.
* The Challenge organiser benchmarked the results incorrectly, so although the web page is out of date, Alec Stephenson, Laleh Tafakori and myself were the winning team. We have been invited to contribute our winning entry to the Extremes journal for publication.
Publications
Invited talks, refereed proceedings and other conference outputs
Saunders, K.
(2017). An Australia wide model for rainfall extremes.
Extreme Value Analysis.
Saunders, K.
(2016). ENSO and Extreme Daily Rainfall In South East Queensland.
13th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology.
Journal Articles
Saunders, K., Stephenson A.G.., Taylor P., & Karoly D..
(2018). The spatial distribution of rainfall extremes and the influence of El Niño Southern Oscillation.
Weather and Climate Extremes. 18, 17-28. doi: 10.1016/j.wace.2017.10.001
Stephenson, A. G., Saunders K., & Tafakori L.
(2018). The MELBS team winning entry for the EVA2017 competition for spatiotemporal prediction of extreme rainfall using generalized extreme value quantiles.
Extremes. 21(3), 477 - 484. doi: 10.1007/s10687-018-0321-0
Maltby, V. E., Lea R. A., Saunders K., White N., Benton M. C., Scott R. J., et al.
(2017). Differential methylation at MHC in CD4+ T cells is associated with multiple sclerosis independently of HLA-DRB1.
Clinical Epigenetics. 9(1), doi: 10.1186/s13148-017-0371-1
Saunders, K., Stephenson A. G., Taylor P., & Karoly D.
(2017). The spatial distribution of rainfall extremes and the influence of El Niño Southern Oscillation.
Weather and Climate Extremes. 18, 17 - 28. doi: 10.1016/j.wace.2017.10.001
