Geosciences
Coastal Hazards: Concepts, Tools and Methods
The characteristics of coastal land where sea meets land: potential hazards, measurement and monitoring, and methods for assessing coastal erosion and marine flooding under climate change scenarios.
Overview
About the programme
The characteristics of coastal land where sea meets land: potential hazards, measurement and monitoring, and methods for assessing coastal erosion and marine flooding under climate change scenarios.
Duration
2 days
Training hours
14 hours
Delivery
Training hall · Virtual · At your premises
Language
Arabic or English
Objectives
What trainees will gain
- Understand the characteristics of coastal land where sea meets land.
- Identify potential hazards and assess specific risks and their impacts.
Content
What the programme covers
How coastal systems work
- Hazards: coastal erosion, weather-related marine flooding and tsunamis.
- Coastal hazard concepts: impact phenomena and spatial and temporal scales; hydrodynamics: waves, storm surge and currents; sediments: stock, transport and morphodynamics; reference events; and exposed elements, their exposure and vulnerability.
Measurement, monitoring and data
- Required databases: topography, bathymetry, waves, water levels and land use.
- Coastal oceanographic forecasting systems: waves, currents and water levels.
Coastal hazard assessment methods
- What historical analyses of extreme events tell us, methods for calculating return periods, erosion and flooding, map outputs and communication tools, and models: their inputs and limitations.
- Case studies with and without climate change and sea-level rise.
Who for
Target audience
Officials at coastal organisations, coastal managers and consultants.
Method
How it is delivered
Presentations and case studies.
A programme tailored to your organisation
The duration and topics of the programme are adjusted to the organisation's needs, and it is delivered at its site, in a training hall arranged by the Center, or virtually.