A new European coastal flood database for low–medium intensity events

M Le Gal, T Fernández-Montblanc… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2023 - nhess.copernicus.org
Coastal flooding is recognized as one of the most devastating natural disasters, resulting in
significant economic losses. Therefore, hazard assessment is crucial to support …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of model configuration for coastal flooding across Europe

M Le Gal, T Fernández-Montblanc, JM Perez, E Duo… - Coastal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Coastal flooding estimation at large scale, eg pan-European is usually performed using
static method while dynamic method, in which numerical flood models are used to solve …

Earth observation technologies, policies and legislation for the coastal flood risk assessment and management: a European perspective

AF Velegrakis, D Chatzistratis, T Chalazas… - Anthropocene …, 2024 - Springer
The aim of this contribution is to provide a brief overview of the current and future earth
observation (EO) technologies that can be used to assess and manage the EU coastal flood …

How sea level rise may hit you through the backdoor: Changing extreme water levels in shallow coastal lagoons

M Lorenz, A Arns, U Gräwe - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Due to their choked geometry, coastal lagoons can attenuate extreme water levels
compared to the open sea. However, this protective property is expected to decrease due to …

Raising dikes and managed realignment may be insufficient for maintaining current flood risk along the German Baltic Sea coast

J Kiesel, LE Honsel, M Lorenz, U Gräwe… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Without upgrading existing adaptation, Germany is projected to be among those European
countries that will suffer severe flood damages in 2100. Here we use a validated modeling …

Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024: Conditions for Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation

A Engels, E Gonçalves Gresse, A López-Rivera… - 2024 - degruyter.com
Researchers from a wide range of disciplines have joined forces at the Cluster of Excellence
CLICCS (Climate, Climatic Change, and Society) to investigate how climate and society co …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of data source and copula statistics on estimates of compound flood extremes in a river mouth environment

K Dubois, MAD Larsen, M Drews… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2024 - nhess.copernicus.org
Coastal and riverine floods are major concerns worldwide as they can impact highly
populated areas and result in significant economic losses. In a river mouth environment …

A comprehensive probabilistic flood assessment accounting for hydrograph variability of ESL events

S Kupfer, LR MacPherson, J Hinkel… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Flood characteristics caused by extreme sea level (ESL) events depend largely on the
magnitude of peak water levels (WLs) and their temporal evolution. However, coastal flood …

[HTML][HTML] Brief communication: From modelling to reality–flood modelling gaps highlighted by a recent severe storm surge event along the German Baltic Sea coast

J Kiesel, C Wolff, M Lorenz - Natural Hazards and Earth …, 2024 - nhess.copernicus.org
Abstract In October 2023, the Baltic Sea coasts of Germany and Denmark experienced a
severe storm surge, predominantly impacting the German state of Schleswig-Holstein and …

Coastal flooding in Kołobrzeg (Kolberg) area, southern Baltic Sea, in the light of historical and geological data

A Piotrowski, F Brose, P Sydor - The Holocene, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The Baltic Sea is not a typical tsunami area, but there are reports of coastal flooding, with its
traces preserved in deposits from Germany, Finland and Sweden, and more recently from …