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- Title
Modeling intersite dependence for regional frequency analysis of extreme marine events.
- Authors
Weiss, Jérôme; Bernardara, Pietro; Benoit, Michel
- Abstract
The duration of observation at a site of interest is generally too low to reliably estimate marine extremes. Regional frequency analysis (RFA), by exploiting the similarity between sites, can help to reduce uncertainties inherent to local analyses. Extreme observations in a homogeneous region are especially assumed to follow a common regional distribution, up to a local index. The regional pooling method, by gathering observations from different sites into a regional sample, can be employed to estimate the regional distribution. However, such a procedure may be highly affected by intersite dependence in the regional sample. This paper derives a theoretical model of intersite dependence, dedicated to the regional pooling method in a ' peaks over threshold' framework. This model expresses the tendency of sites to display a similar behavior during a storm generating extreme observations, by describing both the storm propagation in the region and the storm intensity. The proposed model allows the assessment of (i) the regional effective duration of the regional sample and (ii) different regional hazards, e.g., return periods of storms. An application to the estimation of extreme significant wave heights from the numerical sea-state database ANEMOC-2 is provided, where different patterns of regional dependence are highlighted.
- Subjects
FREQUENCIES of oscillating systems; STORM surges; STORMS; WATER waves; FLOODS
- Publication
Water Resources Research, 2014, Vol 50, Issue 7, p5926
- ISSN
0043-1397
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/2014WR015391