Wind-wave climate changes and their impacts

M Casas-Prat, MA Hemer, G Dodet, J Morim… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Wind-waves have an important role in Earth system dynamics through air–sea interactions
and are key drivers of coastal and offshore hydro-morphodynamics that affect communities …

Global probabilistic projections of extreme sea levels show intensification of coastal flood hazard

MI Vousdoukas, L Mentaschi, E Voukouvalas… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Global warming is expected to drive increasing extreme sea levels (ESLs) and flood risk
along the world's coastlines. In this work we present probabilistic projections of ESLs for the …

A recent increase in global wave power as a consequence of oceanic warming

BG Reguero, IJ Losada, FJ Méndez - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Wind-generated ocean waves drive important coastal processes that determine flooding and
erosion. Ocean warming has been one factor affecting waves globally. Most studies have …

Sea state decadal variability in the North Atlantic: A review

A Hochet, G Dodet, F Ardhuin, M Hemer, I Young - Climate, 2021 - mdpi.com
Long-term changes of wind-generated ocean waves have important consequences for
marine engineering, coastal management, ship routing, and marine spatial planning. It is …

Coastal vulnerability across the Pacific dominated by El Nino/Southern oscillation

PL Barnard, AD Short, MD Harley, KD Splinter… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
To predict future coastal hazards, it is important to quantify any links between climate drivers
and spatial patterns of coastal change. However, most studies of future coastal vulnerability …

Primary drivers of multidecadal spatial and temporal patterns of shoreline change derived from optical satellite imagery

B Castelle, A Ritz, V Marieu, AN Lerma, M Vandenhove - Geomorphology, 2022 - Elsevier
Understanding and predicting shoreline change along sandy coasts requires continuous (in
both time and space) long-term (decades) shoreline data at good spatial (eg 100 s of …

A new climate index controlling winter wave activity along the Atlantic coast of Europe: The West Europe Pressure Anomaly

B Castelle, G Dodet, G Masselink… - Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A pioneering and replicable method based on a 66‐year numerical weather and wave
hindcast is developed to optimize a climate index based on the sea level pressure (SLP) that …

Increased winter‐mean wave height, variability, and periodicity in the Northeast Atlantic over 1949–2017

B Castelle, G Dodet, G Masselink… - Geophysical Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract A 69‐year (1948–2017) numerical weather and wave hindcast is used to
investigate the interannual variability and trend of winter wave height along the west coast of …

Sea surface microlayer in a changing ocean–A perspective

O Wurl, W Ekau, WM Landing, CJ Zappa - Elem Sci Anth, 2017 - online.ucpress.edu
The sea surface microlayer (SML) is the boundary interface between the atmosphere and
ocean, covering about 70% of the Earth's surface. With an operationally defined thickness …

Projected changes in significant wave height toward the end of the 21st century: Northeast A tlantic

OJ Aarnes, M Reistad, Ø Breivik… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Wind field ensembles from six CMIP5 models force wave model time slices of the northeast
Atlantic over the last three decades of the 20th and the 21st centuries. The future wave …