IMEDEA Sea Level

IMEDEA · CSIC-UIB

Projects

SeaLine logo Sep 2026 – Aug 2029

SeaLineOngoing

Towards a better understanding of coastal extreme sea levels and their drivers in a warming climate

Reference
PID2025-171905OB-I00
Funding
MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and FEDER, UE
PIs
Ángel Amores, Marta Marcos

Impact

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2022 – 2025

DRICOEXCompleted

Disentangling the drivers of European coastal sea-level extremes

Reference
CNS2022-135532
Funding
MCIN/AEI
PI
Ángel Amores

Impact

  • 5 papers
  • 94 citations
  • 5 journals
Papers published
  1. ReMatch: Re-identification of patterned species in open-set scenarios by matching keypoints and lines Pattern Recognition, 2026 · 3 citations
  2. Expanding the Coastal Observation Frontier: SWOT Reveals the Spatial Footprint of Storm Surges Geophysical Research Letters, 2025 · 7 citations
  3. Constraining Extreme Storm Surges Along the European Coasts From a Large Ensemble of Climate Models Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, 2025 · 3 citations
  4. Global warming drives a threefold increase in persistence and 1 ° C rise in intensity of marine heatwaves Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025 · 51 citations
  5. Storm Daniel fueled by anomalously high sea surface temperatures in the Mediterranean npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2024 · 30 citations
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2022 – 2025

DETECTCompleted

Decadal predictability of coastal extreme sea levels under climate change

Reference
PID2021-124085OB-I00
Funding
MCIN/AEI
PI
Marta Marcos

Impact

  • 9 papers
  • 235 citations
  • 8 journals
Papers published
  1. MAROR: a multipoint autoregressive network for forcing-driven, uncertainty-calibrated reconstruction of hourly coastal sea level from 1940 to the present EGUsphere, 2026 · preprint · 1 citation
  2. Subsidence more than doubles sea-level rise today along densely populated coasts Nature Communications, 2026 · 7 citations
  3. Constraining Extreme Storm Surges Along the European Coasts From a Large Ensemble of Climate Models Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, 2025 · 3 citations
  4. Global warming drives a threefold increase in persistence and 1 ° C rise in intensity of marine heatwaves Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025 · 51 citations
  5. Future Wave Climate in the Mediterranean Sea and Associated Uncertainty From an Ensemble of 31 GCM‐RCM Wave Simulations Earth s Future, 2025 · 11 citations
  6. Storm Daniel fueled by anomalously high sea surface temperatures in the Mediterranean npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2024 · 30 citations
  7. Regional variations in relative sea-level changes influenced by nonlinear vertical land motion Nature Geoscience, 2024 · 104 citations
  8. Shoreline response to sea-level rise according to equilibrium beach profiles Scientific Reports, 2023 · 12 citations
  9. Coastal extreme sea levels in the Caribbean Sea induced by tropical cyclones Natural hazards and earth system sciences, 2023 · 16 citations
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2019 – 2021

MOCCACompleted

Mediterranean sheltered beach morphodynamics in the face of climate change

Reference
RTI2018-093941-B-C31
Funding
Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI)
PI
Marta Marcos

Impact

  • 12 papers
  • 1093 citations
  • 7 journals
Papers published
  1. Impact of mean sea-level rise on the long-term evolution of a mega-nourishment Climatic Change, 2023 · 23 citations
  2. Coastal extreme sea levels in the Caribbean Sea induced by tropical cyclones Natural hazards and earth system sciences, 2023 · 16 citations
  3. Coastal sea levels and wind-waves in the Mediterranean Sea since 1950 from a high-resolution ocean reanalysis Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 · 83 citations
  4. GESLA Version 3: A major update to the global higher‐frequency sea‐level dataset Geoscience Data Journal, 2022 · 227 citations
  5. Numerical Simulation of Atmospheric Lamb Waves Generated by the 2022 Hunga‐Tonga Volcanic Eruption Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 · 195 citations
  6. Coastal flooding and mean sea-level rise allowances in atoll island Scientific Reports, 2022 · 36 citations
  7. Coastal Flooding in the Balearic Islands During the Twenty-First Century Caused by Sea-Level Rise and Extreme Events Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 · 32 citations
  8. Coastal Flooding in the Maldives Induced by Mean Sea-Level Rise and Wind-Waves: From Global to Local Coastal Modelling Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 · 45 citations
  9. Uncertainty and Bias in Global to Regional Scale Assessments of Current and Future Coastal Flood Risk Earth s Future, 2021 · 158 citations
  10. Historical tide gauge sea‐level observations in Alicante and Santander (Spain) since the 19th century Geoscience Data Journal, 2021 · 50 citations
  11. Coastal impacts of Storm Gloria (January 2020) over the north-western Mediterranean Natural hazards and earth system sciences, 2020 · 182 citations
  12. Coastal Impacts Driven by Sea-Level Rise in Cartagena de Indias Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 · 46 citations
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2017 – 2021

INSeaPTIONCompleted

Integrating sea-level projections in climate services for coastal adaptation

Reference
PCIN-2017-038 · ANR-17-ERA4-0002
Funding
ERA4CS (European Research Area for Climate Services)
PI
Marta Marcos

Impact

  • 9 papers
  • 671 citations
  • 9 journals
Papers published
  1. Co-creating a coastal climate service to prioritise investments in erosion prevention and sea-level rise adaptation in the Maldives Climate Services, 2023 · 26 citations
  2. Decision-support for land reclamation location and design choices in the Maldives Climate Risk Management, 2023 · 9 citations
  3. Coastal flooding and mean sea-level rise allowances in atoll island Scientific Reports, 2022 · 36 citations
  4. Coastal Flooding in the Maldives Induced by Mean Sea-Level Rise and Wind-Waves: From Global to Local Coastal Modelling Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 · 45 citations
  5. Uncertainty and Bias in Global to Regional Scale Assessments of Current and Future Coastal Flood Risk Earth s Future, 2021 · 158 citations
  6. Probabilistic reanalysis of storm surge extremes in Europe Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020 · 99 citations
  7. Ocean Swells along the Global Coastlines and Their Climate Projections for the Twenty-First Century Journal of Climate, 2019 · 45 citations
  8. Increased Extreme Coastal Water Levels Due to the Combined Action of Storm Surges and Wind Waves Geophysical Research Letters, 2019 · 188 citations
  9. Vertical land motion and relative sea level changes along the coastline of Brest (France) from combined space-borne geodetic methods Remote Sensing of Environment, 2019 · 65 citations
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