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First considerations on environmental friendly solutions to protect the Southern Romanian coast

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  • 1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (DECA-UPC)
  • 2. National Institute of Marine Geology and Geo-Ecology (GeoEcoMar)
  • 3. International Centre for Research of Coastal Resources (CIIRC), Barcelona, Spain
  • 4. Laboratory of Maritime Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (LIM-UPC)

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The aim of this work is to assess the effect of a nature-based solution for reducing wave heights on the Southern Romanian coast. Apart from investigating the presence of seagrass from the environmental point of view, there is also a need to assess its impact on the coastal hydrodynamics. The impact on the wave heights of a seagrass meadow located on the Southern Romanian coast, has been analyzed by means of a wave model. In this purpose, several numerical simulations have been performed, both for low and average offshore wave conditions, available from a previous wave climate study, which used a 30 years climate data set. A first set of simulations have been performed in the absence of seagrass. Then a seagrass meadow has been added to our grid and the wave model has been run in the same offshore wave conditions. The differences in computed nearshore wave heights reach around 4% for moderate energy waves. These results show that, on the Southern Romanian coast, seagrass could be regarded as an additional measure for nearshore wave attenuation.

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