Coastline Changes of the Baltic Sea from South to East: Past and Future Projection - 19

This text discusses sea-level and coastline changes.

These topics are becoming increasingly important for populations living along the edge of the world's oceans and seas, especially in areas where eustatic sea-level rise is superimposed by isostatic subsidence and storm-induced coastal erosion.

This is the case at the southern and eastern Baltic Sea coast: in the south, glacio-isostatic subsidence enhances the effect of climate-induced sea-level rise and strong storm effects are causing a continuous retreat of the coast.

At the eastern coast the glacio-isostatic uplift compensates eustatic sea-level rise, but storm-induced waves are responsible for permanent morphodynamic changes to the coastline.

There is an increasing need for protection concepts for defense but also for the economic use of the different types of coastal zones.