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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">NHESSD</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">NHESSD</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2195-9269</issn>
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<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/nhess-2016-378</article-id>
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<article-title>Homogenous regions based on extremogram for regional frequency analysis of extreme skew storm surges</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Andreewsky</surname>
<given-names>Marc</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Griolet</surname>
<given-names>Samuel</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Hamdi</surname>
<given-names>Yasser</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Bernardara</surname>
<given-names>Pietro</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Frau</surname>
<given-names>Roberto</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Department EDF-R&amp;D-LNHE, Chatou, 78401, France</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Polytech Lyon, Rochetaillée sur Saône, 69270, France</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>IRSN, Fontenay-Aux-Roses, BP17, 92262, France</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>EDF Energy R&amp;D UK Center, SW1E5JL, UK</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>27</day>
<month>02</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>2017</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>24</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2017 Marc Andreewsky et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2017</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access">
<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>To resist marine submersion, coastal protection must be designed by taking into account the most accurate estimate of the return levels of extreme events,  such as storm surges. However, because of the paucity of data, local statistical analyses often lead to poor frequency estimations. Regional 
Frequency Analysis (RFA) reduces the uncertainties associated with these estimations, by  extending the dataset from local (only available data at the target site) to regional (data at all the neighboring sites including the target site) and by assuming, at the scale of a region, a similar extremal 
behavior. RFA, based on the index flood method, assumes that, in a homogeneous region, observations at sites, normalized by a local index, follow the same probability distribution. In this work, the spatial extremogram approach is used
to form a physically homogeneous region centered on the target site. The approach is applied on a database of extreme skew storm surges and used to carry out a RFA.</p>
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