Extreme Wave Events

Oral

1148 - Spatial And Temporal Clustering Analysis Of Extreme Wave Events Around The Uk Coastline

Presenting Author(s)

• VM

  Victor Malagon Santos, MSc

  Graduate Research Assistant
  University of Central Florida

Additional Author #1(s)

• IH

  Ivan Haigh

  University of Southampton

Additional Author #2(s)

• TW

  Thomas Wahl, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  University of Central Florida

Extreme wave events can cause loss of life and considerable damage to coastal infrastructure. Here, an event-based analysis approach has been used to assess the spatial footprint and temporal clustering of extreme storm-wave events around the coast of the UK. Waves that exceeded the 1 in 1-year return level were analyzed from 18 different buoy records. Six main spatial footprints were identified in terms of extreme wave events occurrence along stretches of coastline. Most events were observed between November and March, with large inter-annual differences in the number of events per season associated with the West Europe Pressure Anomaly.