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- Title
Modelling ocean wave climate with a Bayesian hierarchical space-time model and a log-transform of the data.
- Authors
Vanem, Erik; Huseby, Arne; Natvig, Bent
- Abstract
Long-term trends in the ocean wave climate because of global warming are of major concern to many stakeholders within the maritime industries, and there is a need to take severe sea state conditions into account in design of marine structures and in marine operations. Various stochastic models of significant wave height are reported in the literature, but most are based on point measurements without exploiting the flexible framework of Bayesian hierarchical space-time models. This framework allows modelling of complex dependence structures in space and time and incorporation of physical features and prior knowledge, yet remains intuitive and easily interpreted. This paper presents a Bayesian hierarchical space-time model with a log-transform for significant wave height data for an area in the North Atlantic ocean. The different components of the model will be outlined, and the results from applying the model to data of different temporal resolutions will be discussed. Different model alternatives have been tried and long-term trends in the data have been identified for all model alternatives. Overall, these trends are in reasonable agreement and also agree fairly well with previous studies. The log-transform was included in order to account for observed heteroscedasticity in the data, and results are compared to previous results where a similar model was employed without a log-transform. Furthermore, a discussion of possible extensions to the model, e.g. incorporating regression terms with relevant meteorological data, will be presented.
- Subjects
OCEAN waves; CLIMATOLOGY; BAYESIAN analysis; DATA analysis; GLOBAL warming; STOCHASTIC models; MATHEMATICAL transformations
- Publication
Ocean Dynamics, 2012, Vol 62, Issue 3, p355
- ISSN
1616-7341
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10236-011-0505-5