Hindcast of Extreme Wind, Wave, Surge and Current Data Offshore Georgia

A data base of hurricane-generated surface winds, sea state, storm surge and currents has been produced through a hindcast of 16 of the most intense tropical cyclones to affect the South Atlantic Bight since 1900. The hindcasts were made with numerical prediction models (ODGP, SURGE II) which had been developed originally for the specification of peak hurricane-generated winds, waves and surge heights in the Gulf of Mexico, but which have since undergone validation in a wide range of storm types in several basins. The extremal analysis of site-specific hindcast peak wind, wave, surge and current data provided new estimates of extremes at eight sites designated for structures.