Advances in Coastal Zone Research: Meteorological Hazards and the Environment

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Meteorology".

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Department of Coastal Construction Engineering, Kunsan National University, 558 Daehak-ro, Kunsan, Jeonbuk 54150, Korea
Interests: hydrodynamic modeling; coastal engineering; storm surge; sea-level rise
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Department of Marine Science and Convergence Engineering, Hanyang University ERICA Campus, Ansan 15588, Korea
Interests: coastal engineering; physical modeling; numerical modeling; sediment transport; tsunami; natural hazards; wave energy harvesting; water wave mechanics
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Dear Colleagues,

The hazards of meteorological changes appear in various forms on the Earth's surface. In particular, many natural disasters such as wave deformation, storm surges, wave overtopping, and coastal erosion/deposition due to changes in the weather force are continuously repeated on the coast. Efforts to predict and reduce these environmental risks changes have continued over the past centuries, but in recent years, with the help of state-of-the-art observation equipment and using artificial intelligence (AI), we are making rapid progress compared to the past. Along with the rise in sea levels, people around the world should seek effective countermeasures against coastal risks and environmental changes that appear as the final change in weather factors should be deeply investigated.

We invite the submission of original research articles and reviews on any aspect of atmosphere–sea interactions on the coastal zone, including (but not limited to) extreme waves, wave deformation, rip currents, storm surges, meteotsunamis, wave overtopping, erosion, and deposition and so on, and their variations across space and time. We encourage studies using the most recent technology such as big data analyses informed by ocean weather buoys, extreme wave predictions using AI, real-time forecasting storm surges and/or wave overtopping, and numerical modeling focusing on the coastal zone air–sea interactions. We also welcome studies in observational and reanalysis data to address long-term variations of coastal zone environment due to atmospheric changes.

Prof. Dr. Seung-Won Suh
Dr. Sung-Hyup You
Prof. Dr. Sungwon Shin
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Keywords

  • coastal hazards
  • air–sea interaction
  • storm surges
  • extreme wave prediction
  • real-time forecasting

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Influence of Trade Winds on the Detection of Trans-Hemispheric Swells near the Canary Islands
by Emilio Megías and Manuel García-Román
Atmosphere 2022, 13(4), 505; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13040505 - 22 Mar 2022
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Trade winds are common in the Canary Islands archipelago and affect not only the weather of the islands but also the local wave climate. On the other hand, the arrival in the Canaries of swells from the Southern Hemisphere is little known, but [...] Read more.
Trade winds are common in the Canary Islands archipelago and affect not only the weather of the islands but also the local wave climate. On the other hand, the arrival in the Canaries of swells from the Southern Hemisphere is little known, but usual. The records of these swells arriving in the Canary Islands have two clear peaks throughout the year, one in spring and the other in autumn. In this work, how the trade winds influence the detection of this type of swells is studied. It is estimated that only approximately half of this type of wave that reaches the Canary Islands could be adequately recorded in the buoy output data tables by the action of these winds. Therefore, their effects may be underestimated in local wave climate studies. Full article
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Evaluation of Wave Contributions in Hurricane Irma Storm Surge Hindcast
by Abram Musinguzi, Lokesh Reddy and Muhammad K. Akbar
Atmosphere 2022, 13(3), 404; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13030404 - 01 Mar 2022
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This paper evaluates the contribution of waves to the total predicted storm surges in a Hurricane Irma hindcast, using ADCIRC+SWAN and ADCIRC models. The contribution of waves is quantified by subtracting the water levels hindcasted by ADCIRC from those hindcasted by ADCIRC+SWAN, using [...] Read more.
This paper evaluates the contribution of waves to the total predicted storm surges in a Hurricane Irma hindcast, using ADCIRC+SWAN and ADCIRC models. The contribution of waves is quantified by subtracting the water levels hindcasted by ADCIRC from those hindcasted by ADCIRC+SWAN, using OWI meteorological forcing in both models. Databases of water level time series, wave characteristic time series, and high-water marks are used to validate the model performance. Based on the application of our methodology to the coastline around Florida, a peninsula with unique geomorphic characteristics, we find that wave runup has the largest contribution to the total water levels on the south and northeast coasts. Waves increase the surge on the south and northeast coasts, due to large fetch and wave runups. On the west coast, the wave effect is not significant, due to limited fetch. However, significant wave heights become greater as the waves propagate into the deep inner gulf. The continental shelf on Florida’s west coast plays a critical role in decreasing the significant wave height and sheltering the coastal areas from large wave effects. Both models underpredict the high-water marks, but ADCIRC+SWAN reduces the underprediction and improves the parity with the observed data, although the scatter is slightly higher than that of ADCIRC. Full article
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