Wave Extremes in the Northeast Atlantic

The objective of this study is to compute 100-yr return value estimates of significant wave height using a new hindcast developed by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. This regional hindcast covers the northeast Atlantic and spans the period 1958–2009. The return value estimates are based upon...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of Climate
Main Authors: Aarnes, Ole Johan, Breivik, Øyvind, Reistad, Magnar
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Meteorological Society 2012
Subjects:
Waves
oceanic
Extreme events
Northeast Atlantic
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1956/9253
https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-11-00132.1
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Summary:The objective of this study is to compute 100-yr return value estimates of significant wave height using a new hindcast developed by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. This regional hindcast covers the northeast Atlantic and spans the period 1958–2009. The return value estimates are based upon three different stationary models commonly applied in extreme value statistics: the generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution, the joint GEV distribution for the r largest-order statistic (rLOS), and the generalized Pareto (GP) distribution. Here, the qualitative differences between the models and their corresponding confidence intervals are investigated. publishedVersion

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