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  WHAT HAPPENS WITH CLIMATE CHANGE?
 
  PROJECT DESCRIPTION
 
  SCIENTIFIC RESULTS
 
  THE PROJECT
PARTNERS
- Environmental Organic Geochemistry
- Atmospheric Aerosols
- Limnogeology and Global Change
- Ecology and Environmental Change
- Marine Geosciences
- Coastal and Ocean Engineering
- Ocean Geosciences
- Atmospheric Contamination and Meteorology
- Ecology of Perturbations and Forestal Restoration
- Effects of Pollution on Plants and Carbon Cycle
- Physical Institute
 
  FOR PROJECT PARTICIPANTS
 
  ADMINISTRATIVE
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  THE PROJECT PARTICIPANTS
Coastal and Ocean Engineering
University of Cantabria

Expertise: Civil engineering. Coastal sciences

 
  Objectives
- To analyze statistically the variability of millennial abrupt climate changes
- To generate numerical data bases to evaluate the coastal climate change
- To obtain the seasonal, interannual, decadal and secular variability of wave climate (present and future) and its effects along the Spanish coast

Research lines in climate change
- Statistical analysis of the frequency and intensity of abrupt climate changes in the last 500 ky.
- Reanalysis of wind waves, storm surge and currents
- Effects of climate change in the coast in the XXI century
- Seasonal-to-interannual variability of wave climate
- Non stationary extreme value models
- Statistical and dynamic downscaling techniques applied to wave climate
- Coastal flooding in the XXI century

Tasks
- Statistical analysis of the frequency and intensity of abrupt climate changes in the last 500 ky
- Statistical analysis of the periodicity of abrupt climate changes in the Dansgaard-Oeschger events
- Generation of high resolution wave and storm surge reanalysis models (1950-2010) applied to the Spanish littoral.
- Seasonal-to-interannual variability of extreme wave climate along the Spanish coast using numerical and instrumental data bases
- Seasonal-to-interannual variability of multidimensional wave climate along the Spanish coast
- Teleconnection relationships between climate indices and wave climate along the Spanish coast
- Projection of wave climate in the XXI century using statistical downscaling techniques
- Propagation of wave climate to shallow water using dynamic and statistical downscaling
- Seasonal, interannual and long-term trends of sea level extremes around the World
- Effects of climate change along the Spanish coast in the XXI century