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http://dx.doi.org/10.5467/JKESS.2021.42.5.524

Comparison of Methods for Estimating Extreme Significant Wave Height Using Satellite Altimeter and Ieodo Ocean Research Station Data  

Woo, Hye-Jin (Department of Earth Science Education, Seoul National University)
Park, Kyung-Ae (Department of Earth Science Education, Seoul National University)
Byun, Do-Seung (Ocean Research Division, Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Administration)
Jeong, Kwang-Yeong (Ocean Research Division, Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Administration)
Lee, Eun-Il (Ocean Research Division, Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Administration)
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Journal of the Korean earth science society / v.42, no.5, 2021 , pp. 524-535 More about this Journal
Abstract
Rapid climate change and oceanic warming have increased the variability of oceanic wave heights over the past several decades. In addition, the extreme wave heights, such as the upper 1% (or 5%) wave heights, have increased more than the heights of the normal waves. This is true for waves both in global oceans as well as in local seas. Satellite altimeters have consistently observed significant wave heights (SWHs) since 1991, and sufficient SWH data have been accumulated to investigate 100-year return period SWH values based on statistical approaches. Satellite altimeter data were used to estimate the extreme SWHs at the Ieodo Ocean Research Station (IORS) for the period from 2005 to 2016. Two representative extreme value analysis (EVA) methods, the Initial Distribution Method (IDM) and Peak over Threshold (PoT) analysis, were applied for SWH measurements from satellite altimeter data and compared with the in situ measurements observed at the IORS. The 100-year return period SWH values estimated by IDM and PoT analysis using IORS measurements were 8.17 and 14.11 m, respectively, and those using satellite altimeter data were 9.21 and 16.49 m, respectively. When compared with the maximum value, the IDM method tended to underestimate the extreme SWH. This result suggests that the extreme SWHs could be reasonably estimated by the PoT method better than by the IDM method. The superiority of the PoT method was supported by the results of the in situ measurements at the IORS, which is affected by typhoons with extreme SWH events. It was also confirmed that the stability of the extreme SWH estimated using the PoT method may decline with a decrease in the quantity of the altimeter data used. Furthermore, this study discusses potential limitations in estimating extreme SWHs using satellite altimeter data, and emphasizes the importance of SWH measurements from the IORS as reference data in the East China Sea to verify satellite altimeter data.
Keywords
significant wave height; satellite altimeter; Ieodo Ocean Research Station; extreme value analysis;
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