Xu, ZhenshanZhenshanXuDreier, NormanNormanDreierChen, YongpingYongpingChenFröhle, PeterPeterFröhleXie, DongmeiDongmeiXie2020-05-292020-05-292016-03-01Journal of Coastal Research 75 (1): 962-966 (2016-03-01)http://hdl.handle.net/11420/6198The assessment of extreme wave heights is of great importance for the design of coastal protection strucutres. This paper aims to present long-term changes of extreme wave heights at several selected locations at the German Baltic Sea Coast. Annual maximum significant wave heights were selected from the hourly wave data obtained from a hybrid approach (wind-wave-correlations combined with numerical simulations on the basis of the SWAN model) for a total period of 140 years, spanning from 1961 to 2100. The future projections of wind data were dreived from the regional COSMO-Climate Local Model for two emission scenarios A1B and B1. The extreme wave heights at each location were estimated from the respective best-fitting distribution, log-normal or Weibull distribution. The results indicate that, the long-term changes of extreme wave heights are related to the emission scenarios used in the regional climate model, the distribution chosen for the estimating (up to +9.6%) and also the sample size for the extreme value analysis (up to +8.7%). These factors should be carefully considered in the future coastal structure design.en0749-02082016962966Baltic SeaCosmo-CLMExtreme value distributionExtreme wave heightsSWANJournal Article10.2112/SI75-193.1Other