Modeling of Flood Hazard and Assessment of Inundation Impacts, Vulnerability and Risk in Coastal Areas

Dear Colleagues,

The impacts of coastal inundation due to storm surges, high tides, meteo-tsunamis, intense wave action etc. can be disastrous and will likely be enhanced in the 21st century based on the projected future changes of climatic conditions. Moreover, compound flooding in coastal areas, i.e., the total inundation due to simultaneous extreme sea levels, heavy precipitation, large surface water runoff, and river/stream overflow, has been identified as the most prominent hazard in both natural and built/urban coastal environments.

Relevant to the above, this Special Issue covers various hot topics of modern research, i.e., the very high-resolution modelling of flood hazards in coastal areas in order to support the detailed identification of inundation impacts at low-lying littoral areas. It also focuses on the assessment of exposure, vulnerability, resilience and flood risk in both the natural environment and urban settings of the coastal zone.

To this end, we invite authors to submit papers addressing recent advances in fine-scale modelling, process-based approaches, remote sensing, field studies, hazard and exposure assessment methods to investigate coastal flooding impacts for both short-term forecasting and long-term flood risk analyses. Papers addressing flood mitigation measures and specific case studies about coastal flooding impacts and assessment of related costs are also welcomed. Submitting research about the drivers of coastal floods, such as sea level rise, storm surges/tides, (meteo-)tsunamis and extreme wave conditions is further encouraged. Conclusively, we seek new contributions to recent technological solutions in data acquisition and production of very high-resolution/-accuracy datasets of floodwater inundation in the coastal zone.

The following thematic areas are targeted:

• detailed GIS approaches for flooding scenarios in coastal areas
• high-resolution digital terrain models in the coastal zone
• powerful high-resolution modelling tools for the investigation of coastal flooding
• advances in reduced complexity modelling approaches
• parallel modelling approaches and fine-scale raster-based modelling
• assessment of inundation impacts in coastal areas
• calculation of building-level or element-at-risk exposure to coastal floods
• extreme value analyses of total water level on the coastline
• effects of sea level rise and extreme storm surges/tides and waves in the coastal zone
• remote sensing, field observations and modelling of sea level rise trends
• storm surge, wave, and tsunami modelling for coastal inundation
• flood hazard and risk assessment in coastal regions
• flash- and compound-flood modelling
• climate change-driven coastal inundation
• early warning systems for flood inundation in coastal areas
• coastal inundation hazard risk analysis and assessment
• innovations in coastal flood hazard and risk mapping
• numerical simulation of inundation in the existence of flood defence structures
• coastal flood impacts forecasting, operational forecast issues, and management of first-level response and recovery
• emerging technologies in coastal flood prediction and management
• coastal flooding physical processes and dynamics
• investigation of adaptation, resilience and intervention options against flooding in coastal areas
• improved understanding of coastal hazards
• marine, hydrologic, and hydraulic model coupling for compound flooding
• wave overtopping of coastal defences, dune overflow and breaching, failure of sewage systems

Dr. Christos Makris
Dr. Yannis Androulidakis
Guest Editors

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• coastal flooding
• coastal inundation
• compound flooding
• coastal flood risk
• storm surge
• climate change impacts
• operational forecasting of floods
• early warning systems
• sea level rise
• wave-induced flooding