Extreme wave heights in the North Atlantic from altimeter data
Extreme waves are an important ocean feature. We estimate return values of significant wave height from measurements by satellite altimeters over the North Atlantic. The data were divided into 2° latitude by 2° longitude grid squares and the median along the satellite track was taken in each. Return...
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| author | Wimmer, Werenfrid Challenor, Peter Retzler, Chris |
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| description | Extreme waves are an important ocean feature. We estimate return values of significant wave height from measurements by satellite altimeters over the North Atlantic. The data were divided into 2° latitude by 2° longitude grid squares and the median along the satellite track was taken in each. Return values were estimated by fitting a Generalised Pareto Distribution to all values above a threshold, which was allowed to vary spatially. This method is objective, more statistically robust and thus theoretically preferable to fitting a distribution to all the data. The novel method gave return values that were up to 37% smaller than those estimated by fitting a Fisher-Tippet 1 distribution to all the data. |
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| op_relation | Wimmer, Werenfrid, Challenor, Peter and Retzler, Chris (2006) Extreme wave heights in the North Atlantic from altimeter data. Renewable Energy, 31 (2), 241-248. (doi:10.1016/j.renene.2005.08.019 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2005.08.019>). |
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| spelling | ftsouthampton:oai:eprints.soton.ac.uk:24148 2025-04-06T14:59:47+00:00 Extreme wave heights in the North Atlantic from altimeter data Wimmer, Werenfrid Challenor, Peter Retzler, Chris 2006-02 https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/24148/ unknown Wimmer, Werenfrid, Challenor, Peter and Retzler, Chris (2006) Extreme wave heights in the North Atlantic from altimeter data. Renewable Energy, 31 (2), 241-248. (doi:10.1016/j.renene.2005.08.019 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2005.08.019>). Article PeerReviewed 2006 ftsouthampton https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2005.08.019 2025-03-11T10:12:38Z Extreme waves are an important ocean feature. We estimate return values of significant wave height from measurements by satellite altimeters over the North Atlantic. The data were divided into 2° latitude by 2° longitude grid squares and the median along the satellite track was taken in each. Return values were estimated by fitting a Generalised Pareto Distribution to all values above a threshold, which was allowed to vary spatially. This method is objective, more statistically robust and thus theoretically preferable to fitting a distribution to all the data. The novel method gave return values that were up to 37% smaller than those estimated by fitting a Fisher-Tippet 1 distribution to all the data. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic University of Southampton: e-Prints Soton Renewable Energy 31 2 241 248 |
| spellingShingle | Wimmer, Werenfrid Challenor, Peter Retzler, Chris Extreme wave heights in the North Atlantic from altimeter data |
| title | Extreme wave heights in the North Atlantic from altimeter data |
| title_full | Extreme wave heights in the North Atlantic from altimeter data |
| title_fullStr | Extreme wave heights in the North Atlantic from altimeter data |
| title_full_unstemmed | Extreme wave heights in the North Atlantic from altimeter data |
| title_short | Extreme wave heights in the North Atlantic from altimeter data |
| title_sort | extreme wave heights in the north atlantic from altimeter data |
| url | https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/24148/ |