Arns, Arne: Regional to local assessment of extreme water levels : methods and application to the northern part of the German North Sea coastline. 2014
Content
- Vorwort
- Abstract
- Kurzfassung
- Content
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of abbreviations and symbols
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Study Area
- 3. Data sets
- PART I. HOW TO ESTIMATE COMPARABLE, ROBUST AND CONSISTENT RETURN WATER LEVELS ON REGIONAL SCALES?
- 4. Motivation
- 5. Theoretical background
- 5.1 Detrending
- 5.2 Sampling
- 5.3 Parameter estimation
- 5.4 Theoretical distribution
- 5.5 Empirical distribution
- 5.6 Return level assessment
- 6. Method set-up and results
- 7. Transferability
- 8. Summary and discussion
- 9. Key findings of Part I
- PART II. HOW TO ESTIMATE RETURN WATER LEVELS IN UN-GAUGED AREAS?
- 10. Motivation
- 11 Regionalization
- 11.1 Principle of the method
- 11.2 Identification of homogeneous regions
- 11.3 Regional distribution
- 11.4 Choice of appropriate regions
- 12. Alternative regionalization approach
- 13. Extreme value analysis
- 14. Summary and discussion
- 15. Key findings of Part II
- PART III. HOW DOES SEA LEVEL RISE AFFECT EXTREME WATER LEVELS?
- 16. Motivation
- 16.1 General
- 16.2 Observed changes in storm surge water levels
- 16.3 Investigations on possible future changes in extreme water levels
- 16.4 Objectives of this study
- 17. Changes in potential driving factors
- 18. Analytical assessment
- 19. Methodology
- 20. Results
- 20.1 Changes in high water levels due to SLR
- 20.2 Changes in high water occurrence times due to SLR
- 20.3 Spatial appearance of changes
- 20.4 Changes in high water level distributions
- 20.5 Changes in tidal constituents
- 20.6 Impact on EVA
- 21. Summary and discussion
- 22. Key findings of Part III
- 23. Overall summary and conclusions
- 24. Recommendations for further research
- References
- A Appendix
- B Appendix
- C Appendix
- D Appendix