El Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de Cantábria junto con la Universidad de Salento, COPRI e IAHR, organizó el congreso SCACR 2017 (International Short Course and Conference on Applied Coastal Research 2017) celebrado en Santander en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Náutica de la Universidad de Cantabria. El congreso fue organizado por Roberto Tomasicchio y Felice D’Alessandro de la Universidad de Salento, e Iñigo J. Losada, Javier L. Lara y María Maza de IHCantabria.
El congreso obtuvo una gran acogida, recibiendo 75 asistentes de 15 países diferentes. Durante la semana se discutieron aspectos de la ingeniería moderna tales como: Oleaje costero, procesos y estructuras; Puertos, puertos y vías navegables; Energía y Recursos Marinos; Dragado en áreas marítimas; Métodos numéricos, de laboratorio y de campo; Medio ambiente costero, riesgo costero y desarrollo costero; Impacto y adaptación al cambio climático.
Asimismo, se contó con la participación de cuatro prestigiosas figuras en el ámbito de la ingeniería de costas que impartieron las siguientes sesiones plenarias:
Miguel A. Losada (Full Professor UGR, Dctor. of AIESR, Dctor. EFDRG):
A global methodology for harbor design, construction and managing
Francisco Esteban Leffler (Technical Director of FCC Services):
Research and Innovation Challenges in Marine Construction
José Jimenez (Full Professor and Head of the Morphodynamics and ICZM Area of LIM/UPC):
Managing beaches in the age of scarcity
Maurizio Brochinni (Direttore Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile, Edile e dell’Architettura UPdM):
Hydro-morphodynamics of micro-tidal estuaries
Trabajos presentados
ESTIMATING PROBABILITIES OF EXTREME WATER LEVELS DUE TO TIDES, STORM SURGE AND RIVERS INFLOWS ON ESTUARINE URBAN FRONTS
- Introduction
Low-lying coastal areas are highly populated, with more than 1.2 billion people living near the coast. The downside of this coastal development is their exposure to natural hazards such as storm surge, extreme waves, tides and high river flows. Among these areas, deltas and estuaries are highly dynamic with river and sea oscillations acting simultaneously and exhibiting non-linear interactions between them. During last years progresses were made in the development of coastal flood hazard maps at large-spatial-scale (Vousdoukas et al. 2016), the simulation of urban coastal flood inundation in estuarine areas for a short-time-scale (Agnieszka et al. 2017) and the study of extreme sea conditions in the nearshore zone for the coastal flood risk analysis. (Gouldby et al. 2014). However, to our knowledge there is a lack of analysis of coastal flooding on estuarine urban fronts at short spatial-scale. This work proposes a methodology to calculate the annual maxima distribution function of the total water level along the estuary considering: (a) the relative importance between the agents, (b) all possible combination between river discharge and tidal elevation peaks and (c) the quantification of their non-linear interactions to advance in the proper calculation of the flood risk. The methodology is applied to the estuary of the Guadalete river, a highly regulated 160-km-long river born in the rainiest area of Spain, where discharge peaks exceed the 400 m3/s and tidal range between 3-4 m.
Fecha
3 – 6 de octubre de 2017
Ubicación
Santander (Cantabría, España)