Exposure of Santos Harbor Metropolitan Area (Brazil) to Wave and Storm Surge Climate Changes

Alfredini, Paolo; Arasaki, Emilia; Pezzoli, Alessandro; Arcorace, Mauro; Cristofori, Elena Isotta; Sousa, Wilson Cabral de

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“…Rapid changes in sea level are also normally associated with strong currents, which may in turn greatly affect coastal infrastructure, cause rapid coastal erosion, impact safety of navigation, etc. (Walsh et al, 2004;Alfredini et al, 2014;Nel et al, 2014;Pardo-Pascual et al, 2014). Therefore, the integration of high-frequency sea level oscillations in coastal hazard and risk assessment studies is critical, especially for low-tidal basins such as the Mediterranean Sea.…”

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High-frequency sea level oscillations in the Mediterranean and their connection to synoptic patterns

Šepić

Vilibić

Lafon

et al. 2015

Progress in Oceanography

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High-frequency sea level oscillations in the Mediterranean and their connection to synoptic patterns

Šepić

Vilibić

Lafon

et al. 2015

Progress in Oceanography

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“…For example, there are various problems that are associated with climate change and its effect on humanenvironmental systems (Barringer 2014;Biao et al 2014;Alfredini et al 2014;Karamouz et al 2014;Niazi et al 2014;NSF 2009;USEPA 2014) as they are reported in this special issue and elsewhere. The premise in most of the climate studies is that the warmer temperatures may increase air and water pollution or increase sea levels or create other hydrologic and catastrophic events and this in turn will have adverse effects on humans (Hansen et al 2006;Solomon et al 2007;Meehl et al 2007;Solomon et al 2009).…”

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Perspectives and Challenges on Climate Change and its Effects on Water Quality and Health

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2014

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Climate change and its effects on water quality and health are an important problem which is challenging different aspects of our present day society. In this special issue, we have approached this problem area by gathering the perspectives of the leading scientists in this field of research. In this editorial, this subject is introduced from a dynamic system analysis perspective as a unifying point of view which is expanded on in several papers that are included in the special issue.Keywords Complex systems · Resilience · Dynamic systems · Climate change · Environment Dynamic Systems and Climate ChangeAs scientists specializing in the environmental health field, we are well aware of the fact that the components of the environmental systems we are working with are constantly changing and these changes produce significant impacts on the behavior of the overall system over the short and also the long term. Given the complexity this introduces, sometimes there is a tendency to treat environmental health systems as systems which are relatively simple as we consider only parts of the system and avoid looking at the broader picture. This approach limits the analysis of the overall system which is constantly responding to change (Friedman 2013). What is the cause of this complacency and what are the consequences especially in view of the more recent and critical topic of climate change and its effects on populations which is the M. M. Aral (B) Multimedia Environmental Simulations Laboratory, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA30332, USA e-mail: mustafa.aral@ce.gatech.edu topic of this special issue? Probably the tendency to ignore complexity is originating from the overwhelming uncertainty associated with the broad description of the problem and the characterization of the interlaced linkages within the components of the system. The consequence is failure to analyze the overall system behavior satisfactorily.As engineers and scientists working in environmental health and climate change fields, we are trained and probably are very good at understanding and solving complicated problems within our specialization areas. This of course requires specialization in narrow fields of research and isolated analysis of specific applications. We are also well aware of the fact that the systems we have to work with cannot be characterized as "complicated systems," but they need to be characterized as "complex systems." Complex systems cannot be studied in isolation and will require the involvement of a team of specialists from numerous fields and also the generalists to show us the links between the components that are involved.A complex system is comprised many components with many interlaced relations among its components. In these systems, the behavior of each component depends on the behavior of the other components, which influences the response of the overall system. That is the observed change in system behavior is due to the cumulative impact of the change with...

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“…Alguns estudos citam impactos negativos gerados por atividades antrópicas como o "engordamento" artificial da Ponta da Praia (ITALIANI, 2014), as atividades de dragagem (TORRES et al, 2009), a contaminação da área por metais pesados (FUKUMOTO, 2007) e, estudos sobre as modificações causadas pela elevação do nível do mar na dinâmica (FIEDLER, 2015) e na região estuarina como inundações costeiras, alterações na linha de costa, erosão costeira (ALFREDINI; ARASAKI; AMARAL, 2008;ALFREDINI et al, 2013;ALFREDINI et al, 2014).…”

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Caracterização dos processos sedimentares em trecho do canal de acesso ao Porto de Santos, por meio de métodos acústicos

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Exposure of Santos Harbor Metropolitan Area (Brazil) to Wave and Storm Surge Climate Changes

Cited by 12 publications

References 18 publications

High-frequency sea level oscillations in the Mediterranean and their connection to synoptic patterns

High-frequency sea level oscillations in the Mediterranean and their connection to synoptic patterns

Perspectives and Challenges on Climate Change and its Effects on Water Quality and Health

Caracterização dos processos sedimentares em trecho do canal de acesso ao Porto de Santos, por meio de métodos acústicos

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