Venice as a paradigm of coastal flooding under multiple compound drivers.

ABSTRACT: Full comprehension of the dynamics of hazardous sea levels is indispensable for assessing and managing coastal flood risk, especially under a changing climate. The 12 November 2019 devastating flood in the historical city of Venice (Italy) stimulated new investigations of the coastal flooding problem from different perspectives and timescales. Here Venice is used as a paradigm for coastal flood risk, due to the complexity of its flood dynamics facing those of many other locations worldwide. Spectral decomposition was applied to the long-term 1872-2019 sea-level time series in order to investigate the relative importance of different drivers of coastal flooding and their temporal changes. Moreover, a multivariate analysis via copulas provided statistical models indispensable for correctly u

SUBMITTER: Ferrarin C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8986792 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature