FUTURE CHANGES IN EXTREME WAVES AND THEIR SEASONALITY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

Climate change impacts threaten coastal areas all over the world, driven by increasing extreme sea levels. With higher surface and air temperatures, continued sealevel rise high exposure vulnerability of about 20 million people living in low-lying areas, climate affects Mediterranean Sea significantly more than world average is therefore defined as a hotspot (Ali, 2022). Projected changes waves vary on regional local scale play crucial role future water levels impacts. Several past studies used Global Models (GCM) with coarse spatial resolution to study wave climate. However, models high-resolution dynamicallydownscaled winds from Regional RCM) allow an enhanced characterization at scale, which fundamental for impact assessment adaptation studies. Here we present analysis events their seasonality using state-of-the-art ensemble projections developed numerical model Wavewatch III forced wind field data 17 EURO CORDEX GCM-RCMs.