Variability of distributions of wave set-up heights along a shoreline with complicated geometry

Soomere, Tarmo; Pindsoo, Katri; Kudryavtseva, Nadezhda; Eelsalu, Maris

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-1047-2020

Articles | Volume 16, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-1047-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-1047-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 5

Research article

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11 Sep 2020

Research article |

| 11 Sep 2020

Variability of distributions of wave set-up heights along a shoreline with complicated geometry

Tarmo Soomere, Katri Pindsoo, Nadezhda Kudryavtseva, and Maris Eelsalu

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RC1: 'comments on os-2019-25', Anonymous Referee #1, 03 Jun 2019
- AC1: 'Author's response', Tarmo Soomere, 15 Aug 2019
RC2: 'Review of “Variability of distributions of wave set-up heights along a shoreline with complicated geometry” OS-2019-25', Anonymous Referee #2, 05 Jul 2019
- AC2: 'Author's response', Tarmo Soomere, 15 Aug 2019
RC3: 'Review comment to os-2019-25', Anonymous Referee #3, 16 Jul 2019
- AC3: 'Author's response', Tarmo Soomere, 15 Aug 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Tarmo Soomere on behalf of the Authors (03 Nov 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (22 Nov 2019) by Markus Meier

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (09 Dec 2019)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (10 Dec 2019)

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (22 Dec 2019) by Markus Meier

AR by Tarmo Soomere on behalf of the Authors (09 Apr 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (03 May 2020) by Markus Meier

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (17 May 2020)

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (17 May 2020)

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (01 Jun 2020) by Markus Meier

AR by Tarmo Soomere on behalf of the Authors (24 Jun 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (18 Jul 2020) by Markus Meier

AR by Tarmo Soomere on behalf of the Authors (28 Jul 2020) Manuscript

Short summary

Extreme water levels are often created by several drivers with different properties. For example, the contribution from the water volume of the Baltic Sea follows a Gaussian distribution, but storm surges represent a Poisson process. We show that wave set-up heights (the third major component of high water levels) usually follow an exponential distribution and thus also represent a Poisson process. However, at some locations set-up heights better match an inverse Gaussian (Wald) distribution.