Recent years have seen tremendous maritime and coastal development all across
the world [1]. Particularly, over the past few years, the offshore and onshore
landscape of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, has undergone substantial growth [2]
Designing various maritime and coastal constructions necessitates thorough
understanding of and analysis of historical data regarding various environmental
variables, such as waves. For instance, the design wave heights for various return
periods are used to create safe and cost-effective coastal and offshore constructions
[3]. Similar to how it effects high wave heights, climate change has an impact on the
safety of existing infrastructure [1]. Consequently, an essential component of
designing coastal structures is the accurate quantification of wave statistics, such as
the extreme wave height. For instance, a bad estimate of the design wave height of a
structure could result in a bad design that could result in expensive overdesign or
structural failure [4,5]. One of the issues affecting cities, coastlines, agriculture, water
supplies, and natural ecosystems worldwide [6,7] is climate change [8,9]. But coastal
areas are particularly susceptible to its effects. The coastal infrastructure is severely
damaged by coastal processes such sea level rise, coastal flooding and erosion, and
storm surge that affect coasts and beaches [10–14]. Extreme event analysis was done
by Chini et al. (2010) to evaluate the effects of climate change on inshore waves and
the frequency of extreme events [7]. The study found that sea-level rise had an impact
on wave statistics. The authors also contend that exceptional wave heights and
frequency will both significantly rise as a result of climate change [7].