Extreme winds and sea-surges in climate models

• Main Author: Brink, H.W. (Hendrik Willem) van den
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Utrecht University 2005
• Subjects: Natuur- en Sterrenkunde; meteorological extremes; surges; superstorms; climate change; climate models; Bya; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/1825

This thesis deals with the problem of how to estimate values of meteorological parameters that correspond to return periods that are considerably longer than the length of the observational data sets. The problem is approached by considering the output of weather-and climate models as pseudo-observa...