University of the Balearic Islands
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Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of the Balearic Islands in the Department of Physics & IAC3, and member of the Relativity and Gravitation group, which is part of the LIGO and GEO consortia and the e-LISA and Einstein Telescope projects
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and researcher with the Nutrigenomics, Biomarkers and Risk Assessment Group
Research Professor at IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB)
Researcher at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC-CSIC-UIB)
Professor of Physics of the Earth in the Department of Physics at the UIB and researcher at IMEDEA
Lecturer of Theoretical Physics at the University of the Balearic Islands and member of the Relativity and Gravitation group, which is part of the LIGO and GEO consortia and the e-LISA and Einstein Telescope projects
Professor of Social Psychology of Gender in the Department of Psychology and head of the Gender Studies research group
Storm surges, one-off events associated with storms that can cause flooding, are rare and highly destructive phenomena. A paper published this week in Nature finds that they have increased since 1960, comparable to the increase in average sea level rise over the same period.
The authors, led by Spaniard Francisco Calafat of the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool, UK, statistically analyse observations of extreme tides from 79 tide gauges on European coasts over the period 1960-2018, and compare them with climate models.
Their results point to an increase in extreme sea levels in the future, something the authors say has implications for coastal planning. So far, the most widely accepted hypothesis is that the frequency of such extreme storm surges would not increase.