Attributing Climate Trends and Extremes in the Adriatic Sea using Advanced Monitoring and Modeling

The Adriatic Sea and its coastal regions are increasingly exposed to climate variability and extreme events, posing significant challenges to communities, ecosystems, and coastal management. This Research Topic, “Attributing Climate Trends and Extremes in the Adriatic Sea using Advanced Monitoring and Modeling”, aims to advance the understanding of Adriatic climate dynamics, with a particular focus on the robust attribution of trends, extremes, and their evolving statistics through innovative monitoring and modeling approaches.Contributions that integrate high-resolution satellite observations with coupled atmosphere–land- hydrology-ocean models, featuring multi-scale and cross-scale capabilities, as well as statistical techniques and machine learning approaches, are encouraged. These efforts are intended to uncover the underlying drivers and emerging patterns of climate trends and extremes.Following the path set by the AdriaClimPlus project, this collection aims to integrate cutting-edge observational and modeling strategies to deliver actionable insights for predicting, interpreting, and mitigating the impacts of climate change in the Adriatic basin.Topics of interest include • Identification of variability and changes in the hydrological cycle • Identification of multi-physics drivers of coastal climate extremes • Disentangling trends and evolving statistics of climate variables and their extremes • Provision of high-resolution climate projections through dynamical and statistical downscaling, ensemble approaches, and machine learning/data-driven methods Quantification of uncertainties in climate projections • Assessment of coastal physical, biogeochemical and geomorphological impacts under future Adriatic climate scenarios, including compound effects Topic editors: Giorgia Verri, Sonia Silvestri, Lorenzo Mentaschi, Ivica Vilibic, Vladimir Santos da Costa, Iva Tojčić Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/80109/attributing-climate-trends-and-extremes-in-the-adriatic-sea-using-advanced-monitoring-and-modeling