Although there is controversy among economists about whether the U.S. economy is really functioning in a new way in the last decade, there is widespread agreement on one feature of the so-called "New Economy": Physical assets, such as land, natural resources, office space, factories, and...

This study presents a methodology for estimating extreme current speeds from numerical model results using extremal analysis techniques. This method is used to estimate the extreme near-surface and near-bottom current speeds of the northwest Atlantic Ocean with 50-year return periods from...