Sea level and extreme wave events continue to rise at an accelerated rate due to climate change threatening coastal areas all over the world. In addition, coastal regions are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts with a population of around 680 million people (approximately 10% of the world's population) residing at less than 10 m above sea level and projected to reach more than one billion by 2050. More frequent and severe extreme coastal water levels induced by relative sea level change, storm surge and storm waves create a pervasive mechanism for coastal erosion, shoreline retreat and changes in beach morphology. Furthermore, future variations of the hydrological regimes, air-water heat transfer and estuarine morphodynamics threaten the environmental conditions of these areas. Therefore, there is still a need to understand and assess climate change effects on coastal morphology and estuarine dynamics to improve the design of coastal management plans towards future risks.
Climate change science is in continuous evolution with the development of global, regional climate models and earth system models providing new and updated information on relative sea level change, climate extremes and common adaptation pathways such as the one provided by the recently published Assessment Report 6 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Coastal and estuarine impact studies should then incorporate all these new data in an efficient way that allows for risk and adaptation assessments able to evolve as new climate science emerges.
The main target of this Research Topic is to create a multidisciplinary forum for the most recent advances on coastal and estuarine impacts modeling or assessments, including erosion and flooding, water quality impacts, changes in coastal morphology and shore retreat under climate change scenarios. The advances on the characterization of extreme coastal water events are also encouraged as the main driver for future coastal impacts and risk assessments.
We invite authors to contribute original research papers that advanced our understanding and modeling of coastal morphodynamics and estuarine dynamics focused on the following topics:
? Advanced efficient modeling of coastal morphodynamics
? Climate change impacts on coasts
? Extreme coastal water level projections
? Local relative sea level changes
? Developments on coastal retreat
? Coastal resilient pathways
? Climate change impacts on estuarine dynamics
? Salt-marshes evolution
Sea level and extreme wave events continue to rise at an accelerated rate due to climate change threatening coastal areas all over the world. In addition, coastal regions are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts with a population of around 680 million people (approximately 10% of the world's population) residing at less than 10 m above sea level and projected to reach more than one billion by 2050. More frequent and severe extreme coastal water levels induced by relative sea level change, storm surge and storm waves create a pervasive mechanism for coastal erosion, shoreline retreat and changes in beach morphology. Furthermore, future variations of the hydrological regimes, air-water heat transfer and estuarine morphodynamics threaten the environmental conditions of these areas. Therefore, there is still a need to understand and assess climate change effects on coastal morphology and estuarine dynamics to improve the design of coastal management plans towards future risks.
Climate change science is in continuous evolution with the development of global, regional climate models and earth system models providing new and updated information on relative sea level change, climate extremes and common adaptation pathways such as the one provided by the recently published Assessment Report 6 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Coastal and estuarine impact studies should then incorporate all these new data in an efficient way that allows for risk and adaptation assessments able to evolve as new climate science emerges.
The main target of this Research Topic is to create a multidisciplinary forum for the most recent advances on coastal and estuarine impacts modeling or assessments, including erosion and flooding, water quality impacts, changes in coastal morphology and shore retreat under climate change scenarios. The advances on the characterization of extreme coastal water events are also encouraged as the main driver for future coastal impacts and risk assessments.
We invite authors to contribute original research papers that advanced our understanding and modeling of coastal morphodynamics and estuarine dynamics focused on the following topics:
? Advanced efficient modeling of coastal morphodynamics
? Climate change impacts on coasts
? Extreme coastal water level projections
? Local relative sea level changes
? Developments on coastal retreat
? Coastal resilient pathways
? Climate change impacts on estuarine dynamics
? Salt-marshes evolution