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Articles | Volume 19, issue 4
Articles | Volume 19, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-1123-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-1123-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 4
Research article
 | 
20 Jul 2023
Research article |  | 20 Jul 2023

Impact of sea level changes on future wave conditions along the coasts of western Europe

Alisée A. Chaigneau, Stéphane Law-Chune, Angélique Melet, Aurore Voldoire, Guillaume Reffray, and Lotfi Aouf

Data sets

CNRM-CERFACS CNRM-CM6-1-HR model output prepared for CMIP6 CMIP historical A. Voldoire https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.4067

CNRM-CERFACS CNRM-CM6-1-HR model output prepared for CMIP6 CMIP piControl A. Voldoire https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.4164

CNRM-CERFACS CNRM-CM6-1-HR model output prepared for CMIP6 ScenarioMIP ssp585 A. Voldoire https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.422

Reanalysis data Copernicus 0.48670/moi-00030

Observational data Copernicus https://doi.org/10.13155/53381

historical data ESGF http://esgf-data.dkrz.de/search/cmip6-dkrz/?mip_era= 35CMIP6&activity_id=CMIP&institution_id=CNRM-CERFACS&source_id=CNRM-CM6-1-HR&experiment_id=historical

piControl data ESGF http://esgf-data.dkrz.de/search/cmip6-dkrz/?mip_era=CMIP6&activity_id=CMIP&institution_id=CNRM-CERFACS&source_id=CNRM-CM6-1-HR&experiment_id=piControl

ssp585 data ESGF http://esgf-data.dkrz.de/search/cmip6-dkrz/?mip_era=CMIP6&activity_id=ScenarioMIP&institution_id=CNRM-CERFACS&source_id=CNRM-CM6-1-HR&experiment_id=ssp585

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Short summary
Wind waves and swells are major drivers of coastal environment changes and can drive coastal marine hazards such as coastal flooding. In this paper, by using numerical modeling along the European Atlantic coastline, we assess how present and future wave characteristics are impacted by sea level changes. For example, at the end of the century under the SSP5-8.5 climate change scenario, extreme significant wave heights are higher by up to +40 % due to the effect of tides and mean sea level rise.
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