FIELD MEASUREMENT OF IMPACT PRESSURES ON A VERTICAL STRUCTURE GENERATED BY OVERTOPPING WAVES ON A SHALLOW FORESHORE

The vulnerability of coastal areas to the impact of overtopping storm waves has increased in the last decades and should intensify in the future as a result of both heavy anthropisation and climate change effects, notably the mean sea level rise (IPCC Report (2021)). A better knowledge is required of the physical processes that lead to wave overtopping and their impact on upper beach infrastructures. In particular, the quantification and prediction of overtopping wave loading are strategic for designing defense structures and implementing adaptation strategies to improve the resilience of coastal communities faced to the effects of climate change.