In this non-technical talk I will give an introduction to components of total water level, and discuss models for these components, with a view to the creation of an early flood warning system in the Pacific region.
We consider tide gauge, wave buoy, and climate model data, and how to use such data for the statistical modelling of total water level through astronomical tides, storm surge and wave run-up.
The variation in the behaviour of the data is illustrated at several sites located around the Australian coast and in Pacific island nations.
Speaker bio:
Alec Stephenson is a Senior Data Scientist at CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia, and holds an Adjunct Associate Professorship at Swinburne University.
His research interests include extreme event modelling and statistical computing, and he has played a key role in disseminating extreme event methodology by authoring a series of packages in the open source language R (evd, evdBayes, evir, ismev).
He previously held the post of Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore. https://au.linkedin.com/in/alec-stephenson
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1. Book your nearest ACE facility;
2. Notify the seminar convenor at La Trobe University (Andriy Olenko) to notify you will be participating.
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