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Importance of non-stationary analysis for assessing extreme sea levels under sea level rise

Published on 17/11/2022 (last modified 17/11/2022)

ISPRA PUBLISHED THE SCIENTIFIC PAPER

Damiano Baldan, Elisa Coraci, Franco Crosato, Maurizio Ferla, Andrea Bonometto, and Sara Morucci
Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, ISPRA, Venice, Italy

The scientific paper "Importance of non-stationary analysis for assessing extreme sea levels under sea level rise" (Damiano Baldan et al.), developed in ADRIACLIM framework, has been published and is now available on Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences.

Increased coastal flooding caused by extreme sea levels (ESLs) is one of the major hazards related to sea level rise. Estimates of return levels obtained under the framework provided by extreme-event theory might be biased under climatic non-stationarity.  

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