Recurrence intervals for the closure of the Dutch Maeslant surge barrier

van den Brink, Henk W.; de Goederen, Sacha

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-691-2017

Articles | Volume 13, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-691-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-691-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 5

Research article

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14 Sep 2017

Research article |

| 14 Sep 2017

Recurrence intervals for the closure of the Dutch Maeslant surge barrier

Henk W. van den Brink and Sacha de Goederen

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RC1: 'Referee comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 25 May 2017
- AC1: 'reply to referee #1', Henk van den Brink, 11 Jul 2017
RC2: 'Interactive comment to the paper "Recurrence intervals for the closure of the Dutch Maeslant surge barrier" by Henk W. van den Brink and Sacha de Goederen', Anonymous Referee #2, 31 May 2017
- AC2: 'reply to referee #2', Henk van den Brink, 11 Jul 2017

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AR by Henk van den Brink on behalf of the Authors (11 Jul 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (11 Jul 2017) by Mario Hoppema

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (31 Jul 2017)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (01 Aug 2017) by Mario Hoppema

AR by Henk van den Brink on behalf of the Authors (09 Aug 2017) Manuscript

Short summary

The movable Dutch Maeslant surge barrier closes when the city of Rotterdam is threatened by floods due to a big storm on the North Sea. However, the barrier might get damaged and repair may be needed. The question is what is the probability that a second closure is necessary during the repair time? We solve the problem by using a huge dataset of weather situations that accumulates to more than 6000 years. It is found that two closures within a month occur on average once in every 150 years.