Fig. 1

(A) Nearshore locations of interest susceptible to flooding under a 0.5 m SLR scenario without any shoreline protection. (B) Candidate coastal segments considered for installation of seawalls. (C) Flood depth map of Abu Dhabi’s coast produced with a physics-based high-fidelity hydrodynamic simulator under a sample shoreline fortification scenario and an SLR projection of 0.5 meters. The figure was created with Python (v3.10.13, https://www.python.org/) using Matplotlib (v3.10.1, https://matplotlib.org/), Contextily (v1.6.2, https://contextily.readthedocs.io/) and Pandas (v2.0.2, https://pandas.pydata.org/).