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Flood Risk Assessment at the Douro River Estuary
Weber de Melo, W; Pinho, J; Iglesias, I; Bio, A; P. Avilez-Valente; Vieira, J; Bastos, L; Veloso Gomes, FEstuaries have huge socio-economic and environmental importance. They are a shelter for many species and their natural resources are exploited by human activities. However, the intensification of flood events and the sea-level rise (SLR), caused by climate change (CC), can jeopardize its complex dynamics. This work characterizes the hydrodynamic behaviour of the Douro river estuary, located in northern Portugal...
Evaluating wind datasets for wave hindcasting in the NW Iberian Peninsula coast
Viitak, M; P. Avilez-Valente; Bio, A; Bastos, L; Iglesias, IThe available wind datasets can be exploited to support the setup of accurate wave models, able to reproduce and forecast extreme event scenarios. It is of utmost importance in the actual context of climate change. This study focuses on evaluating the performance of a numerical wave model, using different wind datasets, helping to create a tool to assess coastal risks, and further on to support the future imple...
Assessment of a Sand Spit Morphodynamics Under Extreme Flood Events
Pinho, J; Iglesias, I; Melo, W; Bio, A; P. Avilez-Valente; Vieira, J; Bastos, L; Veloso-Gomes, F<jats:p><p>Spits are landforms that present a complex morphology, which depends on currents, waves, sediment transport, tidal range and anthropic-induced changes. Their position and shape is subject to extreme events like flood river discharges and storms. They can also respond to processes that take place at larger time scales, as plate tectonics, sea level rise or even climatological patterns with telec...
Future estuarine circulation patterns characterization based on a hydrodynamic ...
Iglesias, I; Pinho, JL; Bio, A; P. Avilez-Valente; Melo, W; Vieira, J; Bastos, L; Veloso-Gomes, F<jats:p><p>Estuarine regions are strategically important from an environmental, economic, and social point of view. To reduce vulnerability and increase resilience, it is crucial to know their dynamics that usually are poorly understood. Numerical models have proven to be an appropriate tool to improve this knowledge and simulate scenarios for future conditions. However, as the modelling results may be in...
Hydro- and Morphodynamic Impacts of Sea Level Rise: The Minho Estuary Case Study
Melo, W; Pinho, J; Iglesias, I; Bio, A; P. Avilez-Valente; Vieira, J; Bastos, L; Fernando Veloso GomesThe understanding and anticipating of climate change impacts is one of the greatest challenges for humanity. It is already known that, until the end of the 21st century, the mean sea level (MSL) will rise at a global scale, but its effects at the local scale need to be further analyzed. In this context, a numerical modelling tool and a methodological approach for the river Minho estuary (NW of the Iberian Penin...