Anthropogenic sea-level rise (SLR) is predicted to impact, and, in many cases, displace, a
large proportion of the population via inundation and heightened SLR-related hazards. With …

This paper reviews the state of the art in storm surge forecasting and its particular
application in the northern Adriatic Sea. The city of Venice already depends on operational …

Venice has long suffered the effects of rising sea levels. The last two stormy seasons
brought a series of events that peaked in the great flood of November 2019. Here, we …

On October 29, 2018 a very severe storm affected Northern Italy, including the Adriatic Sea.
The ensuing surge and wave conditions at and in front of Venice stand at the extreme tail of …

Coastal systems are among the most studied, most vulnerable, and economically most
important ecosystems on Earth; nevertheless, little attention has been paid, so far, to the …

The rise in sea level and land subsidence are seriously threatening the diversity of tidal
morphologies that have made the Venice Lagoon such a distinctive landscape. Here, we …

In the Venice Lagoon some of the highest tides in the Mediterranean occur, which have
influenced the evolution of the city of Venice and the surrounding lagoon for centuries. The …

We analyse the impact of ship traffic in the vicinity of navigation channels in a wide shallow
waterbody. The crucial hydrodynamic driver in this situation is the depression (Bernoulli) …

This paper proposes a method to infer the future change in the wind-wave climate using
reanalysis wind corrected to statistically match data from a regional climate model (RCM) …

In October 2020, for the first time in its thousand-year-old history, the Venice Lagoon has
been temporarily closed. The first operations of the Mo. SE system, a set of artificial barriers …