Research Article

Estimation of Extreme Values by the Average Conditional Exceedance Rate Method

Table 2

Predicted 100-year return period levels for Nordøyan Fyr weather station by the ACER method for different degrees of conditioning, annual maxima, and POT methods, respectively.

Method Spec , m/s 95% CI ( ), m/s

ACER, various 1 51.85 (48.4, 53.1)
2 51.48 (46.1, 54.1)
4 52.56 (46.7, 55.7)
24 52.90 (47.0, 56.2)
48 54.62 (47.7, 57.6)
72 53.81 (46.9, 58.3)
96 54.97 (47.5, 60.5)

Annual maxima MM 51.5 (45.2, 59.3)
GL 55.5 (48.0, 64.9)

POT 47.8 (44.8, 52.7)