Resumen de Desarrollo de un sistema de alerta temprana por riesgo de temporales marinos: Aplicación a la costa de Cádiz
Javier Benavente González, T. A. Plomaritis, Laura del Río Rodríguez, Giorgio Anfuso Melfi, Francisco Javier Gracia Prieto
Natural disasters in coastal areas have devastating effects; in addition, climate change implicates high uncertainty as to how extreme events will behave in the future, particularly regarding the magnitude and duration of coastal storms. In this context, the ability to predict the arrival of coastal storms is a valuable tool for civil protection agencies. Current meteorological and oceanographic models can develop predictions up to three days in advance that can be integrated into coastal morphodynamic models such as XBeach, allowing forecasting of morphological impacts. Within the European MICORE project a generic structure of Early Warning System (EWS) for coastal storms was designed. The prototype EWS is operated on-line, providing daily predictions of storm impact indicators. This prototype lays the foundation for greater scale EWSs, by using a generic structure adaptable to different coastal environments and free and open-source software; this also allows the adaptation of the EWS functionality to the needs of the end-users.
