Representative and Morphological Waves along the Adriatic Italian Coast in a Changing Climate

This paper investigates the impact of climate change on coastal dynamics along Adriatic Italian coast, with reference to period 2021–2050 considering IPCC RCP 4.5 and 8.5 scenarios. The wave datasets are obtained by forcing a spectral model ERA5 wind fields corrected procedure that makes them suitable for investigated semi-enclosed basin where local meteorological events occur at scales few kilometers. changes between historic run (1981–2010) future scenarios studied in terms mean values, percentile extreme waves 120 virtual buoys coasts. Moreover, morphological equivalent is computed all highlight consequences sediment transport. Along small decrease significant heights found, both transport reduced. However, deviations coast highlighted longshore even reverses its direction some locations