Previous version contained the return levels of coastal significant wave height and sea surface elevation along the Caribbean coastlines corresponding to the periods of 10, 50, 100, 200 and 500 years. The return periods have been computed fitting a Generalised Pareto Distribution to a set of hydrodynamic-wave coupled ocean simulations forced with 1000 synthetic tropical cyclones. See the paper Martin et al (under review) for details. -- The file (Return_levels.mat) contains a Matlab table (with header names) indicating latitude, longitude and the return levels described above, named as Hs (significant wave height) and SSE (sea surface elevation). -- Three other datasets have been included, with the subsample of the Tropical Cyclones selected for the study (Subsample.mat), the geographic data of the coastal grid points used for our analysis (Coastaline.mat), and finally a dataset with the results of the analysis presented in the paper (Results_4_runs.mat). All datasets are provided in a .mat file, generated using Matlab. -- First dataset contains a Matlab table (with header names) indicating latitude and longitude, radius of maximum wind speed, minimum pressure and maximum wind speed a long the track of the Tropical Cyclone, for the 1000 samples selected. -- Second dataset provides both Latitude and Longitude of the coastal grid points used for the analysis. -- The last dataset contains a Matlab table (with header names) where the first column represents the Tropical Cyclone, columns 2,3 and 4 contain the maximum of sea surface elevation (SSE) during the lifetime of the Tropical Cyclone for each coastal point, for the 3 decoupled runs, wind-forced only, pressure-forced only and wind and pressure respectively. The next 4 columns contain the values of the variables for the coupled simulations with WWM-III, maximum significant wave height (Hs), maximum SSE, median of Peak Direction (Dp) and median of Peak period (Tp). All these variables contain a description in the dataset as variable information, and are provided for all coastal points of our grid.

Coastline.mat

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