The concept of credible duration for the Regional Frequency
Analysis including historical data: application of the FAB
method to a skew storm surge database
Abstract:Abstract. The design of effective coastal protections requires an adequate estimation of the annual probability of occurrence of rare events associated to a return period up to 10 3 years. The characterisation of extreme events is carried out by statistical methods based on the extreme value theory. Usually, these methods apply to very short 15 observations series and the uncertainties associated to high return periods are too wide to be used in a design approach. Nowadays, large and spatially distributed data… Show more
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