To address the complex mechanical properties of coastal clay encountered during artificial ground freezing construction in coastal regions, this study investigates coastal clay by conducting mechanical tests under various freezing temperatures and co...
Eutrophication is a major environmental issue with many negative consequences, such as hypoxia and harmful cyanotoxin production. Monitoring coastal eutrophication is crucial, especially for island countries like the Republic of Cyprus, which are eco...
Coastal erosion, exacerbated by climate change, poses a critical global threat to both the environment and human livelihoods. Acquiring accurate, high-resolution topo-bathymetric data is vital for understanding these dynamic environments, without und...
This study investigates residential building damage model transferability between coastal and fluvial flood hazard contexts. Despite the frequency of damaging coastal flood events, empirical damage models from fluvial flooding are often applied in qu...
This study proposes improving the process of the vertical diffusion of temperature in numerical models to enhance the accuracy of sea surface temperature (SST) simulation. SST tends to be underestimated in the coastal and tidal flat regions, such as...
This study examines planning criteria and models for the development of urban settlements situated along the coastline of Boka Kotorska. In the period between 1940 and 2006, coastal settlements underwent great transformations that changed their histo...
Atmospheric corrosion, especially in coastal environments, presents a major challenge for the long-term durability of metallic and concrete infrastructure due to chloride deposition from marine aerosols. With a significant portion of the global popul...
Coastal spaces are important settings for recreation, public health, tourism, and human–environment interaction. However, their spatial attractiveness often changes substantially across seasons, especially in regions with strong climatic variab...
A comparison between a puff atmospheric dispersion model (hereafter: PuM) and a Lagrangian particle model (hereafter: LPM) was conducted for a real case of emissions from an industrial plant, in the context of a complex and coastal site. The PuM&rsqu...
Recent advances in structure-from-motion (SfM) techniques have proliferated the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the monitoring of coastal landform changes, particularly when applied in the reconstruction of 3D surface models from historical...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) generates digital elevation models (DEMs) that range from the local to global scale. Collectively, these DEMs are essential to determinin...
Beach litter accumulation patterns are influenced by biotic and abiotic factors, as well as by the distribution of anthropogenic sources. Although the importance of comprehensive approaches to deal with anthropogenic litter pollution is acknowledged,...
Accurate prediction of near-surface meteorological variables is important for weather services and coastal risk management. However, the station-level performance of global artificial intelligence (AI) weather models remains insufficiently characteri...
Coastal aquifers are more exposed to pollution and salinity than other hydrogeological systems due to their proximity to the sea, increasing groundwater withdrawals, and climate change. The aim of this study is not only to evaluate and compare the vu...
This study aims to develop a robust and adaptable real-time forecasting system for coastal and estuarine regions, considering the challenges posed by the limited or unavailable forecast data. A real-time forecast system has been designed to handle th...
Runoff simulation is of fundamental importance for hydrological research. This study evaluated the applicability of multiple hydrological models and their ensembles for simulating runoff in small and medium-sized river basins of southeastern coastal...
The Puertos del Estado SAMOA coastal and port ocean forecast service delivers operational ocean forecasts to the Spanish Port Authorities since 01/2017 (originally set-up for 9 ports). In its second development phase (2019–2021), the SAMOA serv...
As low-lying coastal areas can be impacted by flooding caused by dynamic components that are dependent on each other (wind, waves, water levels—tide, atmospheric surge, currents), the analysis of the return period of a single component is not r...
Under global climate change, ungulate distributions are generally shifting poleward. However, the dispersal pathways, dynamics of suitable habitat, and environmental drivers of the expanding Milu population in the intensively used coastal wetlands of...
Coastal Louisiana hosts 37% of the coastal wetland area in the conterminous US, including one of the deltaic coastal regions more susceptible to the synergy of human and natural impacts causing wetland loss. As a result of the construction of flood p...
Numerical modeling of wave transformation, hydrodynamics, and morphodynamics in coastal regions holds paramount significance for combating coastal erosion by evaluating and optimizing various coastal protection structures. This study aims to present...
In the present work, the impact of climate change on coastal flooding is investigated through a set of interoperable models developed by the authors, following a modular modelling approach and adapting the modelling sequence to two separate objective...
Coastal defenses under tsunami-like long waves are judged not only by wave attenuation but by their own stability and the hazard left landward, so a porous structure is assessed through several responses at once. OpenFOAM (porousWaveFoam) and FLOW-3D...
Coastal convection is often organized into multiple mesoscale systems that propagate in either direction across the coastline (i.e., landward and oceanward). These systems interact non-trivially with synoptic and intraseasonal disturbances such as co...
The spatial–temporal resolution of remote data covers coastal water variability, but this approach offers a lower accuracy than in situ observations. Two of the major error sources occur due to the parameterization of bio-optical models and spe...
Coastal zones are experiencing rapid urbanization at unprecedented rates. At the same time, coastal cities are the most prone to climate-related vulnerability, including impacts of sea-level rise and climate-related coastal hazards under the present...
Coastal zones, at the interface between land and sea, face increasing challenges from erosion, sea-level rise, and anthropogenic interventions, necessitating innovative tools for effective management and protection. This study introduces COAST-PROSIM...
Around 40% of the world’s population depends on coastal aquifers for freshwater supply but natural and anthropogenic drivers threaten groundwater availability. Of these drivers, saltwater intrusion (SWI) is one of the most critical and is incre...
The evaluation of storm surge flood risk is vital to disaster management and planning at national, regional and local levels, particularly in coastal areas that are affected more severely by storm surges. The purpose of this paper is to propose a new...
This study analyzed the spatial distribution of large green algae (LGA) in the northern coastal waters of China, including the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, using Coastal Zone Imager (CZI) data from the HY-1C/D satellites. An inversion model (coastal zon...
This paper presents the Simulation Management System for Operational Coastal Hydrodynamic Models, or SMS-Coastal, and its novel methodology designed to automate forecast simulations of coastal models. Its working principle features a generic framewor...
Breaching of coastal barriers is a three-dimensional process induced by complex interactions between hydrodynamics, sediment transport and soil avalanching processes. Although numerous coastal barriers are breached every year in many coastal countrie...
In the present work, an integrated coastal engineering numerical model is presented. The model simulates the linear wave propagation, wave-induced circulation, and sediment transport and bed morphology evolution. It consists of three main modules: WA...
Coastal inundation has recently started to require significant attention worldwide. The increasing frequency and intensity of extreme events (sea storms, tsunami waves) are highly stressing coastal environments by endangering a large number of reside...
Long straight seawalls along the coastal front are quite common, especially in cases of coastal cities. In this study in the middle of a coastal zone, a harbor basin in the form of an orthogonal area recessed to the waterfront is considered. A mole o...
Coastal land use represents the combination of various land cover forms in a coastal area, which helps us understand the historical events, current conditions, and future progress of a coastal area. Currently, the emergence of high-resolution optical...
Sea-level rise and climate change stresses pose increasing threats to coastal wetlands that are vital to wildlife habitats, carbon sequestration, water supply, and other ecosystem services with global significance. However, existing studies are limit...
Coastal erosion has posed significant challenges to sustainability and socio-economic stability along Senegal’s coastline, leading to substantial infrastructure losses. Using GIS multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA), two sub-indices were der...
Coastal landscape change represents aggregated sediment transport gradients from spatially and temporally variable marine and aeolian forces. Numerous tools exist that independently simulate subaqueous and subaerial coastal profile change in response...
Increases in the magnitude and frequency of extreme flood events are among the most impactful consequences of climate change. Coastal areas can potentially be affected by interactions among different flood drivers at the interface of terrestrial and...
Coastal cities face escalating flood risk under sea-level rise, yet landscape-based adaptation strategies often remain speculative and weakly connected to the accessibility and economic constraints that shape sustainable urban development. This study...
This study represents the first attempt to map the sediment thickness spatial distribution along the Andalusian coastal zone by integrating various publicly available datasets. While prior studies have presented bedform- and sediment-type syntheses,...
With increasing stress posed to the marine ecosystem and coastal communities, prevention and control of coastal pollution becomes urgent and important, in which the identification of pollution sources is essential. Currently, the pollutant source app...
The continental coastal waters of the Eastern Channel, from Normandy to Hauts-de-France, are subject to the major influence of unbalanced nutrient inputs from inflowing rivers. Several episodes of harmful algal blooms (HABs) compromising fishing and...
This study addresses the limitations of and the common challenges faced by one-dimensional river-routing methods in hydrological models, including the National Water Model (NWM), in accurately representing coastal regions. We developed a two-way coup...
An integrated current–wave–sediment model is developed for coastal and estuary applications. The new model aims to improve the existing ones in both the physical process representation and the numerical techniques. Two areas of improvemen...
Coastal dunes are important morphological features for both ecosystems and coastal hazard mitigation. Because understanding and predicting dune erosion phenomena is very important, various numerical models have been developed to improve the accuracy....
This study investigates the effects of the gulf stream (GS) on sea-level oscillations across various time scales and assesses the performance of a coastal and estuarine model nested within a global model in simulating these variations. It aims to imp...
A numerical model was developed using Delft3D to simulate the circulation dynamics in Port Everglades, FL, and the adjacent coastal area. The model was nested within the HYCOM (Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model), while meteorological data were obtained f...
In the context of economic globalization, coastal port logistics has gradually become a focus of economic development, and the proper management of coastal port logistics performance is the main way to realize the high-efficiency operation of coastal...
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