Mercè Casas-Prat

TL;DR: In this article, the first coherent, community-driven, multi-method ensemble of global wave climate projections is assessed, showing widespread ocean regions with robust changes in annual mean significant wave height and mean wave period of 5-15% and shifts in mean wave direction of 5 −15°, under a high-emission scenario.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed changes in wave variables related to the variations of the forcing wind projections, while also evaluating the evolution of the presence of the different types of sea states.

TL;DR: In this paper, simulations of the global ocean wave climate corresponding to the surface winds and sea ice concentrations as simulated by five CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5) climate models for the historical (1979-2005) and RCP8.5 scenario future (2081-2100) periods were presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the short-term statistics of 10 million individual waves observed with buoys in deep water, corrected for a sample rate bias, and normalized with the standard deviation of the surface elevation (the range of normalized wave heights is 0 < H < 10).

TL;DR: The potential impact of climate change on port operations and infrastructures has received much less attention than the corresponding impact for beach systems as discussed by the authors, however, ports have always been vulnerable to weather extremes and climate change could enhance such occurrences at timescales comparable to the design lifetime of harbour engineering structures.