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Recent and projected marine storm climate in the North Sea
Victoria, 16/17. Oct. 2003
Katja Woth, Ralf Weisse, Frauke Feser, Hans von StorchInstitute for Coastal Research
GKSS
Outline of presentation
Part I
Introduction (storms, storm surges, waves)
Changing storms and weather extremes?
Part II
Reconstruction (recent changes) - ‘hindcast’ of North Sea wave climate
Scenarios / Projections of possible future climate conditions due to North Sea storm surge climate
Why we are interested in marine storm climate:
Storm- and wave-climate are important parts of the coastal climate with impacts on e.g.:
coastal geomorphology
security of dikes
sea and ocean traffic
security and operation of offshore constructions
Questions we are interested in for the future are:
Is there an intensification of extra-tropical storm climate under projected future climate conditions? Can we confirm systematic changes due to more, or more intense wind, wave- and storm surge extremes?
Extratropical storms / natural conditions in the German bight for surges
Andreas Pluess: Section of the Nordseemodel /BAW
http://www.hamburg.baw.de/scn/sc4-99a/node41.htm
N
water is pushed to the coast
water builds up in the shallow water zone / coast -> surge
Hamburg
Typical tracking direction of Northern hemisphere storms leads to
west, north-west or south-west winds:
North Sea,German bight
Introduction: Storm surges
Storm surge:
Fluctuations in the water level due to meteorological factors
Surge caused by : wind stress & inverse barometric effect
inverse barometric effect: 1 cm / 1 hPa
Storm Vivian ~ 950hPa core pressure increase of 63 cm (1013 hPa)
Water-leveltide
surge
Water level: composition of Tide + Surge
North Sea (surges of several metres) wind stress usually more important
Surges at High Water are particularly dangerous
Changing storms and weather extremes?
More storms
More record high waters, flooding
More human tragedies
“We are right in the middle of it”
In discussion: are extratropical storms increasing?
Articel in nature:
Wave highs from 1960 to 1990 were used to fit a linear trend
In discussion: are extratropical storms increasing?
WASA-Update: Storm index after Alexandersson (2000) based on geostrophic wind speeds obtained from pressure triangles.
(WASA Update / Alexandersson)
Time series of normalized intra-annual 99% percentile of daily geostrophic winds for a series of triangles over the British Isles, The Norwegian Sea.
To calculate a trend in the data, it is essential to have a long enough time-series, which include the ‘long term’ variability of the phenomenon
Time series from 1880 until 2002
p.33: “...There is no compelling evidence to indicate that the characteristics of tropical and extra- tropical storms have changed...”
“...Owing to incomplete data and conflicting analyses, it is uncertain as to whether there have been any long-term and large-scale increases in the intensity and frequency of extra-tropical cyclones in the Northern Hemisphere ...”
IPCC statement due to changing storminess...
Point of interest in the context of “climate change” :
>> Is there a systematic change in a certain variable?
here: wind and low pressure systems linked with waves and surge.
Problem:
>> observational data base is often limited
To fill this gap:
>> different downscaling methods are used
e.g. dynamical downscaling for wind, waves and surges with numerical models (reconstructions/”hindcasts” and
projections for different future scenarios) part II of presentation
Summary: part I
Part I
Introduction (storms, storm surges, waves)
Changing storms and weather extremes?
Part II
Reconstruction (recent changes) - ‘hindcast’ of North Sea wave climate
Scenarios / Projections of possible future climate conditions due to North Sea storm surge climate
Outline of presentation
Resolution: 210 km
Resolution: 5km
Resolution: 50 km
REMO Wind speed and direction
21.02.1993 12 UTC
NCEP Global Reanalysis 1958 - 2001
Example dynamical downscaling for the North Sea (HIPOCAS)
WAM Wave height and direction 21.02.1993 12 UTC
Resolution: 5km
Resolution: 210 km
Wave height and direction Wind speed and direction
K13-Alpha (53oN13´04´´;003oE13´13´´) (green - model, black - observations)
m m/s
deg deg
Validation: Individual events (HIPOCAS)
Weisse, pers. comm.
Weisse, pers. comm.
January 1980-January 1997
Estimated extreme values of wind speed at platform K13 (southern North Sea)
Comparison of significant wave height from ERS (Meteomer) and HIPOCAS hindcast for the Southern North Sea for 1993.
simulated
observed
>> One of the objectives in the EU funded PRUDENCE project is....
....an assessment of possible changes in North Sea storm surges in a future climate and of the uncertainty due to the driving model formulation.
Downscaling as projection for possible future climate conditions
Outline of presentation
Part I
Introduction (storms, storm surges, waves)
Changing storms and weather extremes?
Part II
Reconstruction (recent changes) - ‘hindcast’ of North Sea wave climate
Scenarios / Projections of possible future climate conditions due to North Sea storm surge climate
(REMO Wind speed and direction, snap shoot)
Results of the dynamical downscaling:
a high resolved data set in time and space of barotropic current velocity and water level for the integrated area
Forcing of the surge model (TRIM):
SLP and near surface wind components (from different RCMs)
Methods: dynamical downscaling of surge
6’ meridional direction
10’ zonal direction
~ 10 km * 10 km
Scenarios and projections: The TRIM-GEO Model
Model bathymetry and selected coastal grid-cells for certain statistical analysis (pink-points)
• Only one vertical level (barotropic run)
• changes in water level at the open boundaries occur only due to the tides
without taking account of
the increase in mean sea level up to now
without taking account of ‘external surges’ coming from Atlantic
Scenarios and projections: first statistical analysis
Storm surge model forcing: RCM HIRHAM from DMI (Danish meteor. Institute)
For each experiment:
wind_SLP_tide: 1 model run driven by both atmospheric and tidal forcing
only_tide: 1 model run only driven by tidal forcing
SURGE = wind_SLP_tide - only_tide
Comparisons between 30 year CTL-simulation (1961 - 1990) and 30 year A2 projections (2071 - 2100) / only winter month:
Projections for the future / surge meteorological forcing: HIRHAM
Differences in inter-annual percentiles of surge / A2 - CTL (HIRHAM) • no changes in mean
• regionally located shift in the high percentiles.
-> German bight: increase of storm surge highs up to 25/30 cm (only moderate increase in high percentiles of wind speed)
Projections for the future : statistical significance
99-%-tile / CTL and A2 (solid lines)
+/- 1 standard deviation from inter-annual 99-%-tile / CTL (dotted line)
HIR
HA
M
East coast of Great Britain Continental North Sea coast
Projections for the future :return values
25 year return value / CTL and A2 and 90 % confidence limits based on 1000 Monte Carlo simulations:
(fitted on GEV / Zwiers & Kharin J. Climate 1997)
East coast of Great Britain Continental North Sea coast
HIR
HA
M
Summary: part II
in general: only very few observed variables due to marine climate
dynamical downscaling allows to create
* consistent wind, wave, surge data set for European Coastal Waters
* homogeneous, high-resolution data set, which is
* applicable for coastal and offshore applications
(either directly [e.g., extreme value statistics] or indirectly [boundary conditions])
coastal protection: Changing of wave energy affecting coastal structures
and morphodynamics; erosion
operation time of e.g. windfarms are dependant on wave height
operation time of offshore constructions (oil platform) and ferry service
also derivable: ‘proxies’ for water quality (mixing)
Summary: part II
With respect to the questions:
» How will extremes of surge change in a perturbed climate
» How certain can we be about our predictions
>> up to 20% increase in high percentiles, no change in mean
>> return values show an increase up to ~ 50/60 cm (25 y retval -
regionally limited on the German bight, Netherlands, Denmark
>> future distribution seems to be partially significant different from
CTL simulations, based on bootstrap re-sampling
OUTLOOK: extend the statistical analysis by statements about the statistical certainty. Extend the database by running the surge
model with a series of RCMs, driven by same GCM and different GCMs
Validation: extreme events:storm surge/TRIM
storm flood:
16/17 Feb. 1962
observations Cuxhaven:
3.9 m above predicted tide
model: max. 3.65 m
problem: external surge