
Ebru KirezciUniversity of Melbourne | MSD · Department of Infrastructure Engineering
Ebru Kirezci
Doctor of Philosophy in Ocean Engineering
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Introduction
I obtained my PhD from the University of Melbourne in the Infrastructure Engineering Department - Ocean Engineering. My main interest is global climate change impacts specifically at the low lying coastal communities. I am currently conducting research on extreme sea level and sea level rise impacts for the next century.
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The rise of pathways-based approaches to coastal adaptation in Australia has changed user requirements for coastal flood hazard information to support decision-making. This study identifies and addresses three aspects not considered in the existing Australia-specific scientific guidance for planning adaptation to sea-level rise. First, changes in t...
Numerous studies have demonstrated that significant global changes in wave and storm surge conditions have occurred over recent decades and are expected to continue out to at least 2100. This raises the question of whether the observed and projected changes in waves and storm surges will impact coastlines in the future. Previous global-scale analys...
Numerous studies have demonstrated that significant global changes in wave and storm surge conditions have occurred over recent decades. Climate projections indicate such changes are likely to continue out to at least 2100. As coastlines respond to the environmental forcing of waves and storm surges, the question of whether the observed and project...
Both satellite and reanalysis model data have shown statistically significant changes in global wave height in recent decades. It is often speculated that, if such changes continue in the future, they may have an impact on coastal erosion. A global study to investigate whether the observed changes in significant wave height have had a measurable im...
A common inference in research studies of observed and projected changes in global ocean wave height and storm surge, is that such changes are potentially important for long-term coastal management. Despite numerous studies of the impacts of anthropogenic climate change on trends in global wind and waves, a clear link to impacts on sandy coastlines...
Building on a global database of projected extreme coastal flooding over the coming century, an extensive analysis that accounts for both existing levels of coastal defences (structural measures) and two scenarios for future changes in defence levels is undertaken to determine future expected annual people affected (EAPA) and expected annual damage...
Risk-informed flood risk management requires a comprehensive and quantitative risk assessment, which often demands multiple (thousands of) river and flood model simulations. Performing such a large number of model simulations is a challenge, especially for large, complex river systems (e.g., Mekong) due to the associated computational and resource...
The Paris agreement focused global climate mitigation policy on limiting global warming to 1.5 or 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. Consequently, projections of hazards and risk are increasingly framed in terms of global warming levels rather than emission scenarios. Here, we use a multimethod approach to describe changes in extreme sea levels driv...
Flood risk management and planning decisions in many parts of the world have historically utilised flood hazard or risk maps for a very limited number of hazard scenarios (e.g. river water levels), mainly due to computational challenges. With the potentially massive increase in flood risk in future due to the combination of climate change effects (...
A 27-year-long calibrated multi-mission scatterometer data set is used to determine the global basin-scale and near-coastal wind resource. In addition to mean and percentile values, the analysis also determines the global values of both 50-and 100-year return period wind speeds. The analysis clearly shows the seasonal variability of wind speeds and...
Global models of tide, storm surge, and wave setup are used to obtain projections of episodic coastal flooding over the coming century. The models are extensively validated against tide gauge data and the impact of uncertainties and assumptions on projections estimated in detail. Global “hotspots” where there is projected to be a significant change...
We describe an innovative approach to estimate global changes in extreme wave conditions by 2100, as a result of projected climate change. We generate a synthetic dataset from an ensemble of wave models forced by independent climate simulation winds, enhancing statistical confidence associated with projected changes in extreme wave conditions. Unde...
Concerns about climate change highlights the needs to understand extreme sea levels and the resulting flood exposure in coastal areas on a global scale. The combined impacts of storm surge, tide, breaking wave setup and potential sea level rise will pose many economic, societal and engineering challenges in coming years. In order to predict the glo...
Coastal zones are living and constantly changing environments where both the natural events and the human-interaction results come into picture regarding to the shoreline behavior. Both the nature of the coastal zone and the human activities shape together the resultants of the interaction with oceans and coasts. Natural extreme events may result i...