Venice flooding and sea level: past evolution, present issues,  and future projections (introduction to the special issue)

Lionello, Piero; Nicholls, Robert J.; Umgiesser, Georg; Zanchettin, Davide

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-2633-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-2633-2021

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Venice flooding: understanding, prediction capabilities, and...

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-2633-2021

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Venice flooding and sea level: past evolution, present issues, and future projections (introduction to the special issue)

Piero Lionello, Robert J. Nicholls, Georg Umgiesser, and Davide Zanchettin

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of Lionello et al', Anonymous Referee #1, 19 Jan 2021
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Piero Lionello, 31 Jan 2021
RC2: 'Review #2 of Lionello et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Mar 2021
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Piero Lionello, 19 Apr 2021

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (18 May 2021) by Uwe Ulbrich

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (18 May 2021) by Uwe Ulbrich (Executive editor)

AR by Piero Lionello on behalf of the Authors (05 Jun 2021) Author's response Manuscript

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Venice is an iconic place, and a paradigm of huge historical and cultural value is at risk. The threat posed by floods has dramatically increased in recent decades and is expected to continue to grow – and even accelerate – through this century. There is a need to better understand the future evolution of the relative sea level and its extremes and to develop adaptive planning strategies appropriate for present uncertainty, which might not be substantially reduced in the near future.