Dear Colleagues,

Waves and currents are a fundamental feature of the coastal area hydrodynamics and are mainly driven by physical forcing, such as tides, wind stress and river flow. They generate complex circulation patterns along the coast, both in the alongshore and cross-shore directions, influencing or determining sediment transport and the distribution of water parameters, such as temperature and salinity. Currents and waves play an important role in coastal morphodynamics, influence the dispersion of nutrients and pollutants in coastal seas and the biogeochemistry of the water column ecosystem and constitutes an important issue to better predict the future of coastal areas and ecosystems behaviour under climate stress.

This Special Issue is aimed at building synergies between fundamental and applied approaches on understanding waves and currents with special emphasis on the coastal dynamics and environmental impacts. Papers are welcome dealing with theoretical, modeling and applied approaches on coastal circulation under waves, tides and currents, bottom boundary layer hydrodynamics and sediment transport, turbulence, state-of-the-art modeling tools as well as the impact of the climate changes on the morphodynamics and the environmental ecosystem.

This Special Issue covers the following topics:

• State-of-the-art of numerical models of coastal waters hydrodynamics
• Modelling coastal hydrodynamic and sediment transport under wave tides and currents
• Turbulence and bottom boundary layer hydrodynamics
• Modeling biogeochemistry interactions in coastal areas

Dr. José Fortes Lopes
Dr. Paulo A. Silva
Guest Editors

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