Storm Surge Hazards Evaluation and Prediction

Dear Colleagues,

Coastal areas are increasingly being threatened by urban pressure, sea pollution, shoreline retreat, swells, and flooding events exacerbated by the enhancing rate of mean sea level rise and extreme weather events driven by climate change. In recent decades, these hazards have experienced increased research focus, posing several planning and management challenges to the stakeholders, often constrained in finding a compromise between flooding protection of the urban settlements, economic interests, and the health of the environment. As the main hazards threatening the worldwide coastal areas are caused by tropical or extra-tropical storms, storm surge understanding and prediction is of paramount importance to mitigate the hydraulic risk and to assess the effectiveness of sea defence measures, ranging from hard structures to nature-based solutions. Reliable storm surge prediction models can not only save lives and properties, but can also be used to hindcast past events with the aim to improve the hydrodynamic and morphodynamic coastal model capabilities, and to support adaption strategies and policies. Moreover, the actual investigation of coastal retreat triggered by extreme storms has been supported by new findings and technologies in field measurements and erosion process modeling.

The purpose of this invited Special Issue is to publish the most exciting research concerning the state-of-the-art in our understanding and modeling coastal hazards due to storm surge, flooding, and erosion processes, as well as their impact throughout the coastal areas. Contributions are encouraged in topics including the following:

Coastal models development and validation;

Tropical and extra-tropical storm surge modeling;

Statistical sea hazard forecasting;

Erosion process and sediment budget modeling;

Surrogate modeling;

Coupled hydrologic and hydrodynamic models;

Simplified methods for the hydraulic risk evaluation;

Storm surge, waves and extreme water levels forecast challenges;

Novel design criteria for sea defences;

Nature-based solutions;

Structural and non-structural measures for sea hazard reduction;

Effects of climate change on coastal environments.

Prof. Dr. Riccardo Mel
Guest Editor

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