A concise evaluation of water level forecasts from WAQUA/CSM-8

This document gives a limited comparison of the results of the new storm surge model WAQUA/CSM-8 and its predecessor WAQUA/CSM-16 for locations on the Dutch coast, especially for management purposes and to give the users of the model an overview of the main changes in the characteristics of the forecasts.

The report is available as a postscript file.

The report is also available on-line in html format:

1		Introduction
2		Method
	2.1	Statistics
	2.2	Period
	2.3	The Kalman filter
3		Results
4		Summary and conclusions
		Acknowledgements
		References

The bibliographic information of the report (in BibTeX format) is:

@techreport{Vri00,
  author       = "Hans de Vries",
  title        = "A concise evaluation of water level
                  forecasts from {WAQUA/CSM-8}",
  institution  = "KNMI",
  type         = "Memorandum",
  number       = "WM--00--01",
  year         = 2000,
  month        = feb,
  note         = "Unpublished Manuscript" }

Hans de Vries, Mon Mar 13 16:39:42 MET 2000