Coastal Flooding by Extreme Events (CoFEE)

极端事件造成的沿海洪水（CoFEE）在未来100年内，海平面将上升，可能会出现更严重的风暴。这将增加沿海洪水对财产，企业，工业，道路和铁路网络的风险，使我们所有人付出巨大代价。我们现在必须面对气候变化的后果，要么投资于可持续防御，要么开发新的方法来应对更多的洪水。第一种选择将花费大量资金，第二种选择可能意味着我们需要从根本上改变我们目前占据和使用沿海环境的方式。极端事件引发的沿海洪水（CoFEE）项目将利用我们目前对爱尔兰海东部海岸线的了解，在计算机模型中调查风暴期间沿海洪水的速度和程度，并确定我们的海岸对极端事件的敏感程度。CoFEE将试图回答4个问题：（a）未来沿海洪水的规模有多大;（B）我们可以让哪些类型的海岸洪水泛滥，哪些必须防御;（c）未来海岸可能是什么样子;（d）允许沿海洪水发生的风险是什么？CoFEE将考察不同的自然海岸线，包括河口、海滩和沙丘，以及由一系列人造结构保护的海岸线。研究结果将适用于英国其他地区的沿海地区，甚至更广泛。通过将科学家，工程师和防洪规划人员聚集在一起，CoFEE将为预测气候变化中沿海洪水的威胁提供基础，以便更好地利用资源，为管理未来海岸线的洪水风险提供更有效，更明智和可持续的战略。

Coastal Flooding by Extreme Events (CoFEE) Over the next 100 years sea level will rise and there may be more severe storms. This will increase the coastal flooding risk to property, businesses, industry, roads and rail networks at great cost to us all. We must now face the consequences of climate change and either invest in sustainable defences or develop new ways to live with more flooding. The first option will cost a great deal of money and the second option may mean we need to change radically the way we currently occupy and use the coastal environment. The Coastal Flooding by Extreme Events (CoFEE) project will use our present knowledge of the eastern Irish Sea coastline in computer models to investigate the speed and extent of coastal flooding during storms and to determine how sensitive our coasts are to extreme events. CoFEE will attempt to answer 4 questions: (a) how big will coastal floods be in the future; (b) which types of coast can we leave to flood and which must we defend; (c) what might the coast look like in the future; (d) what are the risks of allowing coastal flooding to occur? CoFEE will look at different natural coastlines that include, estuaries, beaches and sand dunes and coastlines that are defended by a range of man-made structures. The results will be applicable to coastal areas elsewhere in Britain and more widely. By bringing together scientists, engineers and the people who plan flood defences, CoFEE will provide the basis for predicting the threat of coastal floods in a changing climate so that resources can be better targeted to deliver more effective, better informed and sustainable strategies for managing the flood risk to our coastlines in the future.