Coastal monitoring for XBeach model calibration in the analysis of the coastal erosion at Cesenatico

Many of the most densely populated areas are located near the coast which is a vulnerable system, affected by erosion and flooding [18].In order to provide an efficient coastal management and coastal risk reduction, a fundamental knowledge of the hydrodinamic and morphodynamic processes in the coastal areas is needed. Numerical models are usually adopted to support long-term and short-term predictions. They need to a proper calibration/validation that is possible thanks to field measurements. XBeach [12] is used in this analysis as a tool to describe the morpho-dynamic coastal behavior. Thanks to a monitoring of a coastal stretch of the Emilia-Romagna littoral, at Cesenatico, it was possible a sensitivity analysis and a morphological calibration of the model.