Recent Developments in Hydrodynamic Measurement, Simulation and Forecast in the Coastal Ocean

The ocean occupies more than 70% of the earth's surface and dominates the earth's climate change, material circulation and the normal operation of the entire ecosystem. As a result of climate change, the ocean has responded in many different aspects, such as sea-level rise, and sea temperature change, this will cause severe weather to occur more frequently. It is necessary and urgent to understand the hydrodynamic conditions, especially in the coastal ocean where human’s main activity area is. This will help to draw up a proper plan for climate change adaptation or hazard mitigation.
Various approaches can be applied to study the hydrodynamic conditions in the coastal ocean, including at least the measurements, simulations and experiments. Data from the field, remote sensing devices, or laboratories all contribute to the research. Past and current data are used for studying the changes; however, model data can be used for forecasting future scenarios. Although there have great advances in the above research over the past few decades, the coastal ocean is highly dynamic in time and space. Therefore, high-resolution and accurate observation, data and forecasting in time and space are urgently needed.

Coastal oceans are important because they are directly affected by people's activity and are most subject to industrial and natural disasters. Coastal oceans are also sensitive to climate change influences, e.g., extreme weather can substantially induce severe sea conditions and have catastrophic impacts on coastal residents. Hydrodynamic conditions are kernel factors for all alterations. It is therefore this research topic aims to understand the hydrodynamic conditions in the coastal ocean according to human interferences or climate changes by any innovative techniques.

This Research Topic aims to collect the latest and innovative techniques for the understanding of hydrodynamic conditions in the coastal ocean by measurement, modeling and experiment, to explore cutting-edge ideas and novel methods in advancing this topic. The Research Topic welcomes contributions from multi-disciplinary research. Authors are encouraged to submit articles on, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Coastal ocean environment observations by satellites, radars, buoys, and other new or innovative observing platforms
• Monitoring networks and their development
• Ocean modeling advances
• Application of AI in ocean modeling, data assimilation and real-time forecasting
• Developments of the hydrodynamic mechanism of marine environmental theories and methodologies

Keywords: Coastal Ocean, Measurement, Simulation, Modeling, Climate Change

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