ArticleScientific reports2024
Global coastal wave storminess.
Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Rising coastal wave hazards from climate-driven winds and tropical cyclones.National science review · 2026Article
- Coastlines retreat tipping point under storm climate changes.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Challenges and opportunities in predicting coastal total water levels from empirical runup models: Insights from major storms in Southeast Australia.Cambridge prisms. Coastal futures · 2026Article
- A coastal exposure index for Ireland: relative hazard exposure and the protective role of coastal habitats.Natural hazards (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2026Article
- Wave storm dynamics and clustering, and their impacts on beach erosion.Cambridge prisms. Coastal futures · 2025Article
- Coastal hardening and what it means for the world's sandy beaches.Nature communications · 2024Article
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Abstract
Coastal wave storms pose a massive threat to over 10% of the world's population now inhabiting the low elevation coastal zone and to the trillions of $ worth of coastal zone infrastructure and developments therein. Using a ~ 40-year wave hindcast, we here present a world-first assessment of wind-wave storminess along the global coastline. Coastal regions are ranked in terms of the main storm characteristics, showing Northwestern Europe and Southwestern South America to suffer, on average, the most intense storms and the Yellow Sea coast and the South-African and Namibian coasts to be impacted by the most frequent storms. These characteristics are then combined to derive a holistic classification of the global coastlines in terms of their wave environment, showing, for example, that the open coasts of northwestern Europe are impacted by more than 10 storms per year with mean significant wave heights over 6 m. Finally, a novel metric to classify the degree of coastal wave storminess is presented, showing a general latitudinal storminess gradient. Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, Chile and Australia show the highest degree of storminess, whereas Indonesia, Papua-New Guinea, Malaysia, Cambodia and Myanmar show the lowest.
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