Extreme value analysis of North Sea storm severity
- Delft Univ. of Technology (Netherlands)
- Shell Research Rijswijk (Netherlands)
In this paper the authors consider the estimation of North Sea storm severity, for storms with return periods in the interval 100-years to 10,000-years. The analysis involves: modelling the tail-distribution for extreme storm severity, estimating extreme storm severity, estimating confidence intervals for extreme storm severity, validating the bias and variance of estimates using simulation studies, for known underlying model forms, and estimating the robustness of extreme quantile estimates with respect to mis-specification of the underlying model for the tail-distribution. Applications to NESS (Northern European Hindcast Study) hindcast data at clusters of locations in the northern, central and southern North Sea are considered. Results suggest, in particular, the existence of a physical upper limit for storm severity in the North Sea with a negative and close to constant value for the extreme value index.
- OSTI ID:
- 455450
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9606279-; ISBN 0-7918-1491-2; TRN: IM9716%%299
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 14. international conference on offshore mechanics arctic engineering (OMAE), Florence (Italy), 16-20 Jun 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 15. international conference on offshore mechanics and arctic engineering -- OMAE 1996. Volume 2: Safety and reliability; Guedes Soares, C. [ed.] [Technical Univ. of Lisbon (Portugal)]; Bea, R.G. [ed.] [Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)]; Leira, B.J. [ed.] [SINTEF, Trondheim (Norway)]; Shetty, N.K. [ed.] [W.S. Atkins, Surrey (United Kingdom)]; Vinnem, J.E. [ed.] [Elf Petroleum Norge AS, Oslo (Norway)]; PB: 525 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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