Extreme Significant Wave Heights for US Coastal Waters
Includes extreme significant wave heights, in meters, computed using peaks over threshold method on NOAA 30-year WWIII hindcast data. Extreme values for 5, 10, 25, 50, and 100 year return periods were computed. Sites cover US coastlines.
Column 1: Site identifier/name
Column 2: Site latitude
Column 3: Site longitude
Column 4: 5-year extreme Hs, in meters
Column 5: 10-year extreme Hs, in meters
Column 6: 25-year extreme Hs, in meters
Column 7: 50-year extreme Hs, in meters
Column 8: 100-year extreme Hs, in meters
Citation Formats
TY - DATA
AB - Includes extreme significant wave heights, in meters, computed using peaks over threshold method on NOAA 30-year WWIII hindcast data. Extreme values for 5, 10, 25, 50, and 100 year return periods were computed. Sites cover US coastlines.
Column 1: Site identifier/name
Column 2: Site latitude
Column 3: Site longitude
Column 4: 5-year extreme Hs, in meters
Column 5: 10-year extreme Hs, in meters
Column 6: 25-year extreme Hs, in meters
Column 7: 50-year extreme Hs, in meters
Column 8: 100-year extreme Hs, in meters
AU - Bredin, Sara
DB - Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository
DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
DO - 10.15473/1460413
KW - MHK
KW - Marine
KW - Hydrokinetic
KW - energy
KW - power
KW - resource
KW - evaluation
KW - characterization
KW - extreme
KW - wave
KW - height
KW - United States
KW - US
KW - waters
KW - seas
KW - ocean
KW - NOAA
KW - hindcast
KW - Marine Energy Resource Assessment and Characterization
LA - English
DA - 2016/09/01
PY - 2016
PB - Sandia National Laboratories
T1 - Extreme Significant Wave Heights for US Coastal Waters
UR - https://doi.org/10.15473/1460413
ER -
Bredin, Sara. Extreme Significant Wave Heights for US Coastal Waters. Sandia National Laboratories, 1 September, 2016, Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.15473/1460413.
Bredin, S. (2016). Extreme Significant Wave Heights for US Coastal Waters. [Data set]. Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository. Sandia National Laboratories. https://doi.org/10.15473/1460413
Bredin, Sara. Extreme Significant Wave Heights for US Coastal Waters. Sandia National Laboratories, September, 1, 2016. Distributed by Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.15473/1460413
@misc{MHKDR_Dataset_150,
title = {Extreme Significant Wave Heights for US Coastal Waters},
author = {Bredin, Sara},
abstractNote = {Includes extreme significant wave heights, in meters, computed using peaks over threshold method on NOAA 30-year WWIII hindcast data. Extreme values for 5, 10, 25, 50, and 100 year return periods were computed. Sites cover US coastlines.
Column 1: Site identifier/name
Column 2: Site latitude
Column 3: Site longitude
Column 4: 5-year extreme Hs, in meters
Column 5: 10-year extreme Hs, in meters
Column 6: 25-year extreme Hs, in meters
Column 7: 50-year extreme Hs, in meters
Column 8: 100-year extreme Hs, in meters
},
url = {https://mhkdr.openei.org/submissions/150},
year = {2016},
howpublished = {Marine and Hydrokinetic Data Repository, Sandia National Laboratories, https://doi.org/10.15473/1460413},
note = {Accessed: 2025-07-15},
doi = {10.15473/1460413}
}
https://dx.doi.org/10.15473/1460413
Details
Data from Sep 1, 2016
Last updated Nov 18, 2024
Submitted Sep 29, 2016
Organization
Sandia National Laboratories
Contact
Sara Bredin
Authors
Keywords
MHK, Marine, Hydrokinetic, energy, power, resource, evaluation, characterization, extreme, wave, height, United States, US, waters, seas, ocean, NOAA, hindcast, Marine Energy Resource Assessment and CharacterizationDOE Project Details
Project Name Model Validation and Site Characterization for Early Deployment MHK Sites and Establishment of Wave Classification Scheme
Project Lead Joel Cline
Project Number FY16 AOP 141701
