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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">OSD</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Ocean Science Discussions</journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">1812-0822</issn>
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<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/os-2016-47</article-id>
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<article-title>Evaluation of Peaks-Over-Threshold Method</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Saeed Far</surname>
<given-names>Soheil</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2735-2084</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Abd. Wahab</surname>
<given-names>Ahmad Khairi</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81310, Skudai, Johor Bahru, Malaysia</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Center for Coastal &amp; Ocean Engineering, Research Institute for Sustainable Environment, UTM, Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra, 54100, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia</addr-line>
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<day>07</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2016</year>
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<volume>2016</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>25</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2016 Soheil Saeed Far</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2016</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Two extreme wave analysis models, namely Peaks-Over-Threshold (POT) and Generalized Pareto Distribution (GPD), were developed in order to improve the POT model and highlight merits and limitations of the two models. Studies have shown that the POT model was not equipped with a suitable approach to determine a true threshold value. This paper proposed an approach to specify the most suitable threshold value for the POT model, which is called Hybrid method. In addition, until now the MIR (minimum ratio of residual correlation coefficient) criterion has been used as a goodness-of-fit method in the POT model. However, the examinations on the method represented that MIR is not always a stable approach in determining true distribution function. This paper proposed an alternative approach instead of the MIR criterion method, it is called Norm of Residuals, and its credibility was examined by the Chi-Square test. The results drawn from this study also demonstrated that the Hybrid method completely matched with the POT model, and the threshold obtained by this method is credible, moreover, the Norm of Residuals method is completely stable in determining the best fitting distribution for the POT model.</p>
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