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Dariush Ashtab, Mehdi Gholamalifard, Parviz Jokar, Andrey G. Kostianoy and Aleksander V. Semenov
Protected areas are referred to around the world as the basis of conservation strategies. Designation of marine protected areas (MPAs) is to preserve marine biodiversity and protect species, habitats in the seas, and oceans. The simulated annealing algor...
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Jialong Peng, Shaoqiang Wang, Lin Mu and Si Wang
With the increasing global reliance on maritime oil transportation, oil spills pose significant environmental hazards to coastal ecosystems. This study presents a comprehensive quantitative framework for assessing oil spill risks along the Jiaozhou Bay c...
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Abigail Dah, Boualem Khouider and Courtney Schumacher
Coastal convection is often organized into multiple mesoscale systems that propagate in either direction across the coastline (i.e., landward and oceanward). These systems interact non-trivially with synoptic and intraseasonal disturbances such as convec...
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Jisheng Xia, Guize Luan, Fei Zhao, Zhiyan Peng, Lu Song, Shucheng Tan and Zhifang Zhao
A coastline is the boundary zone between land and sea, an active zone of human social production activities and an area where the ecology is fragile and easy to change. The traditional method to analyze temporal and spatial changes in the coastline is to...
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Modou A. Sowe, Sadhasivam Sathish, Nicolas Greggio and Mohamed M. Mohamed
Many coastal aquifers are facing severe anthropogenic impacts such as urbanization, industrialization and agricultural activities are resulting in a saltwater intrusion. This establishes the need for a sustainable groundwater management strategy aimed to...
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Marco Petti, Silvia Bosa, Sara Pascolo and Erika Uliana
The morphological evolution of a tidal inlet is the combined result of tides and wind waves, which interact in a non-linear manner and over very different time-scales. Likewise, the presence of maritime structures built in the vicinity of the tidal inlet...
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Payam Momeni, Katsuichiro Goda, Mohammad Heidarzadeh and Jinhui Qin
Historical records of major earthquakes in the northwestern Indian Ocean along the Makran Subduction Zone (MSZ) indicate high potential tsunami hazards for coastal regions of Pakistan, Iran, Oman, and western India. There are fast-growing and populous ci...
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Emma L. Levin and Hiroyuki Murakami
Although anthropogenic climate change has contributed to warmer ocean temperatures that are seemingly more favorable for Atlantic hurricane development, no major hurricanes made landfall in the United States between 2006 and 2016. The U.S., therefore, ex...
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Arjen P. Luijendijk, Matthieu A. de Schipper and Roshanka Ranasinghe
Thirty one percent (31%) of the world?s coastline consists of sandy beaches and dunes that form a natural defense protecting the hinterland from flooding. A common measure to mitigate erosion along sandy beaches is the implementation of sand nourishments...
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Cristina Forbes, Jamie Rhome, Craig Mattocks and Arthur Taylor
Numerical simulations of the storm tide that flooded the US Atlantic coastline during Hurricane Sandy (2012) are carried out using the National Weather Service (NWS) Sea Lakes and Overland Surges from Hurricanes (SLOSH) storm surge prediction model to qu...
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