Comissionat per a Universitats i Recerca del Departament d'Innovació, Universitats I Empresa de la Generalitat de Catalunya
Consell Asesor per al Desenvolupament Sostenible
European Geosciences Union
European Science Foundation
FLASH project
Generalitat de Catalunya
Generalitat de Catalunya-Direcció General de Protecció Civil
MedCLIVAR
Meteorological Service of Catalonia
Ministerio de Ciencia y Innovación
University of Barcelona
PLC11
Air-Sea Interactions, Ocean Waves, and Coastal Surges
Convener:
Jordi Salat
Air-sea interactions are often under the Mediterranean extreme events. Exchanges of momentum or heat, latent and sensible, have an important impact over the atmospheric circulation and water transport. Likewise wind storms and heavy rains not only affects the coastal system: beach dynamics, sediment floods, underwater slides, etc, but also have strong influences over open seas: vertical mixing, convection, wind driven currents, etc.
Under this topic session, contributions on effects of Mediterranean storms over the sea or contributions of the sea to the Mediterranean storms are welcome. Among those: air-sea exchanges of heat and water, storm surges, seiches, effects of floods on the sea and the coastal system, coastal dynamics affected by wind storms, deep sea slides or beach dynamics, oceanographic conditions that may favour or difficult convective storms, vulnerability of aquatic ecosystems and their role to prevent coastal hazards, extreme events of ocean dynamics or ocean sediments.