A NEW GENERATION OF EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS FOR COASTAL RISK. THE ICOAST PROJECT

Vicente Gracia; Manuel García-León; Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla; Jeremy Gault; Pere Oller; Juan Fernández; Abdel Sairouní; Elena Cristofori; Ramón Toldrà

doi:10.9753/icce.v34.management.18

No. 34 (2014), Coastal Management, Environment, and Risk

No. 34 (2014)

A NEW GENERATION OF EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS FOR COASTAL RISK. THE ICOAST PROJECT

Coastal Management, Environment, and Risk

https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v34.management.18

Published 2014-10-28

Vicente Gracia⁺⁻
Manuel García-León⁺⁻
Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla⁺⁻
Jeremy Gault⁺⁻
Pere Oller⁺⁻
Juan Fernández⁺⁻
Abdel Sairouní⁺⁻
Elena Cristofori⁺⁻
Ramón Toldrà⁺⁻

Vicente Gracia

Centre Internacional d'Investigació dels Recursos Costaners CIIRC

Manuel García-León

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla

Centre Internacional d'Investigació dels Recursos Costaners CIIRC

Jeremy Gault

Coastal and Marine Research Centre, University College Cork

Pere Oller

Geological Institute of Catalonia. Generalitat de Catalunya

Juan Fernández

Soluciones Ingeniería Marítima Operacional

Abdel Sairouní

Meteorological Service of Catalonia. Generalitat de Catalunya

Elena Cristofori

Information Technology for Humanitarian Assistance, Cooperation and Action

Ramón Toldrà

Direcció General de Protecció Civil, Departament d'Interior Generalitat de Catalunya

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coastal early warning system
transient defence measures
coastal risk
erosion modelling

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Gracia, V., García-León, M., Sánchez-Arcilla, A., Gault, J., Oller, P., Fernández, J., Sairouní, A., Cristofori, E., & Toldrà, R. (2014). A NEW GENERATION OF EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS FOR COASTAL RISK. THE ICOAST PROJECT. Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1(34), management.18. https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v34.management.18

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A new coastal early warning system CEWS called iCoast for the NW Mediterranean Sea is under development. It is composed of three numerical modules: meteorological, hydrodynamic and morphodynamic. The CEWS is designed for use on open sandy beaches, pocket beaches, secondary harbours as well as areas of coastal defences. A set of hotspots, prone to erosion or flooding, along the Catalan coast are being identified through a coastal hazard and risk mapping. Special attention is given to a set of intervention and emergency protocols based on the forecast outputs and the application of Quick Defence Measures (QDM) to diminish the risk. This paper presents the initial architecture and highlights the next step for QDM under the iCoast project.

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