Special issue on coastal hazards and risks due to tropical cyclones

Prevention and mitigation of coastal disasters is one of most essential tasks of coastal engineers. In previous issues, Coastal Engineering Journal has published a number of articles which focus on the post-disaster survey of catastrophic events induced by intensive tropical cyclones, as shown in Table 1 and Figure 1. This special issue focuses on analysis and investigations of these recent events to deepen understanding of coastal hazards and risks and to improve disaster prevention and mitigation measures.

Figure 1. Locations of events in this special issue and other issues of Coastal Engineering Journal.

Table 1. Events reported in previous issues of Coastal Engineering Journal, and new investigations in this special issue. Locations are indicated in Figure 1

Event	Year	Location	Survey report/related paper
Cyclone Sidr	2007	D	This issue, JSCE (2008)
Typhoon Haiyan	2013	G	Tajima et al. (2014), Kennedy et al. (2016)
Hurricane Arthur	2014	A	This issue
Hurricane Irma	2017	C	Cox et al. (2019)
Hurricane Maria	2017	C	Cox et al. (2019)
Typhoon Lan	2017	K	Matsuba, Shimozono, and Sato (2020)
Typhoon Meranti	2017	F	Tajima et al. (2017)
2018 swell in Indonesia	2018	H	Nurfaida and Shimozono (2019)
Tropical Storm Ampil	2018	E	This issue
Hurricane Dorian	2019	B	This issue
Typhoon Faxai	2019	L	Suzuki et al. (2020)
Typhoon Hagibis	2019	K,L	Shimozono et al. (2020), Tamura et al. (2021)
Typhoon Jebi	2019	J	Mori et al. (2019), Hattori et al. (2020)
Typhoon Haishen	2020	I	This issue

This special issue has 11 articles, which present: (i) Survey reports; (ii) Numerical investigations of the physical mechanisms and characteristics of reported events; (iii) Laboratory experiments on hydrodynamic force acting on structures; and (iv) Future projection of typhoon-induced coastal hazards.

In addition to detailed ground survey data and satellite-based comprehensive and panoramic information, recent events often have onsite videos taken by local residents. Archives of these data are essential to understand and mitigate coastal hazards and risks and for development of future protection and mitigation strategies. As guest editors, we are pleased if this special issue contributes to bringing attention to these archives of recent survey data and their findings.

Disclosure statement

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