ABSTRACT
Extreme value analysis (EVA) provides a useful tool for the characterization of extreme regimes of environmental variables. EVA allows to mitigate some of the complications induced by two of the more common problems that arise when dealing with extreme magnitudes: the scarcity of measurements and the length of the time series. EVA allows to predict values associated to different return periods from a limited series of observations, even when these return periods are larger than the observation period.
