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Impact of sea level rise on the accessibility of coastal ports: a case study of the port of Zeebrugge (Belgium)

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The effect of sea level rise on the hydrodynamic flow in the Belgian coastal zone is investigated in the light of the nautical accessibility of the port of Zeebrugge in Belgium. To this end, numerical simulations are performed considering three different scenarios of sea level rise along with a reference scenario (current situation). Specifically, a moderate, a warm and a worst case scenario of sea level rise (SLR) equal to 60 cm, 90 cm and 200 cm by the year 2100, are considered. The main objective is to find out how the strong tidal currents, which are mainly directed transversely to the access channel and limit the access to the port to a certain tidal window, will be affected by the considered SLR scenarios.

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Kolokythas, G. K.; De Maerschalck, B.; Vanlede, J.; Chu, K. (2018). Impact of sea level rise on the accessibility of coastal ports: a case study of the port of Zeebrugge (Belgium), in: Lynett, P. (Ed.) Proceedings of 36th Conference on Coastal Engineering (ICCE2018), Baltimore, Maryland, July 30 - August 3, 2018. Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 36: pp. [1]. https://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v36.risk.107