The risk of exceeding a certain threshold for Chlorohyll-a in the Wadden Sea

The Ecostress project has the intention to develop systems and methodologies to observe changes in urban coastal areas. Within this project, the Wadden Sea is taken as a pilot area. The goal is to produce tools to assess human, social and environmental impacts, such as the spatial risk and socio-environmental impacts of coastal urbanization. One of the aspired tools is an interactive risk map for the amounts of Chlorophyll-a (Chlfa) in the water, as an indicator of algae, where the month of interest and threshold can be varied. The aim of this thesis is to provide data for this tool. Information about the Chlfa was generated by the GEM/BLOOM-model, developed at Deltares. Once the data from the GEM/BLOOM was available, different methodologies were investigated to execute the risk assessment. In the end the fitting of an ECDF was conducted. This seemed to give proper results. In an attempt to make the data even more reliable, a specialized fitting for the tail was applied according to extreme value theory.

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risk map
water quality
extreme value theory

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