Regional assessment of extreme sea levels and associated coastal flooding along the German Baltic Sea coast

Kiesel, Joshua; Lorenz, Marvin; König, Marcel; Gräwe, Ulf; Vafeidis, Athanasios T.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-2961-2023

Articles | Volume 23, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-2961-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-2961-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 9

Research article

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06 Sep 2023

Research article |

| 06 Sep 2023

Regional assessment of extreme sea levels and associated coastal flooding along the German Baltic Sea coast

Joshua Kiesel, Marvin Lorenz, Marcel König, Ulf Gräwe, and Athanasios T. Vafeidis

Data sets

Coastal flood maps and extreme sea levels for the German Baltic Sea coast (1.0) J. Kiesel, M. Lorenz, M. König, U. Gräwe, and A. T. Vafeidis https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7886455

Short summary

Among the Baltic Sea littoral states, Germany is anticipated to experience considerable damage as a result of increased coastal flooding due to sea-level rise (SLR). Here we apply a new modelling framework to simulate how flooding along the German Baltic Sea coast may change until 2100 if dikes are not upgraded. We find that the study region is highly exposed to flooding, and we emphasise the importance of current plans to update coastal protection in the future.