California Sea Grant College Program

The goal of this project was to develop new statistical and mathematical methods for predicting the risk of property loss, flooding, and erosion from large ocean storms. The cornerstone of the project was to develop a technique for extracting as much information as possible from wave data records. Standard analytic methods, in contrast, often discard useful information from data. The data used for the project was collected by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s network of ocean buoys.