Suivi citoyen des indicateurs des aléas d’érosion côtière et de submersion marine : création de l’application smartphone et tablette CoastAppli et expérimentation à Guissény (Finistère)

International audienceLes aléas côtiers (érosion, submersion, migration dunaire) et les dynamiques côtières sont souvent méconnus par le grand public. Or, dans un contexte de changement climatique et d’évolution de la législation (loi « Climat et résilience » en 2021) sur la gestion des aléas et des risques côtiers (risque(s) combinant aléa(s) et enjeu(x)), le suivi de l’évolution du littoral au travers d’indicateurs des aléas côtiers (position du trait de côte, niveau de la plage, niveau d’eau sur un repère lors d’une submersion, etc.) devrait être l’affaire de tous. Jusqu’à présent, aucune application citoyenne pour smartphone ou tablette ne permettait de suivre conjointement les indicateurs des aléas côtiers d’érosion et de submersion, alors que ces deux aléas sont souvent liés. Pour y remédier, dans le cadre d’un projet de recherche et de formation (2019-2022) regroupant des étudiants en géographie, en biologie et en informatique, nous avons créé l’application Android CoastAppli. CoastAppli, qui vise un public large (habitants, touristes, scolaires, gestionnaires du littoral, etc.) et a été expérimentée à Guissény (Finistère) entre janvier et octobre 2022 auprès de 86 personnes, permet de réaliser un suivi citoyen des indicateurs d’aléas côtiers. Grâce à l’implication des utilisateurs sur les quatre sites de cette commune, les résultats soulignent la fiabilité des données quantitatives (jusqu’à une erreur globale de ± 4 cm) et/ou qualitatives, ainsi que la haute fréquence d’acquisition (mensuelle). Par ailleurs, cela semble un bon moyen pour comprendre, discuter et réfléchir entre acteurs du territoire aux défis de gestion du littoral d’aujourd’hui et de demain

Suivi citoyen des indicateurs des aléas d’érosion côtière et de submersion marine : création de l’application smartphone et tablette CoastAppli et expérimentation à Guissény (Finistère)

International audienceLes aléas côtiers (érosion, submersion, migration dunaire) et les dynamiques côtières sont souvent méconnus par le grand public. Or, dans un contexte de changement climatique et d’évolution de la législation (loi « Climat et résilience » en 2021) sur la gestion des aléas et des risques côtiers (risque(s) combinant aléa(s) et enjeu(x)), le suivi de l’évolution du littoral au travers d’indicateurs des aléas côtiers (position du trait de côte, niveau de la plage, niveau d’eau sur un repère lors d’une submersion, etc.) devrait être l’affaire de tous. Jusqu’à présent, aucune application citoyenne pour smartphone ou tablette ne permettait de suivre conjointement les indicateurs des aléas côtiers d’érosion et de submersion, alors que ces deux aléas sont souvent liés. Pour y remédier, dans le cadre d’un projet de recherche et de formation (2019-2022) regroupant des étudiants en géographie, en biologie et en informatique, nous avons créé l’application Android CoastAppli. CoastAppli, qui vise un public large (habitants, touristes, scolaires, gestionnaires du littoral, etc.) et a été expérimentée à Guissény (Finistère) entre janvier et octobre 2022 auprès de 86 personnes, permet de réaliser un suivi citoyen des indicateurs d’aléas côtiers. Grâce à l’implication des utilisateurs sur les quatre sites de cette commune, les résultats soulignent la fiabilité des données quantitatives (jusqu’à une erreur globale de ± 4 cm) et/ou qualitatives, ainsi que la haute fréquence d’acquisition (mensuelle). Par ailleurs, cela semble un bon moyen pour comprendre, discuter et réfléchir entre acteurs du territoire aux défis de gestion du littoral d’aujourd’hui et de demain

Increased Tpeak-Tend interval is highly and independently related to arrhythmic events in Brugada syndrome

International audienceRisk stratification in Brugada syndrome (BS) remains controversial. The time interval between the peak and the end of the T wave (Tpe interval), a marker of transmural dispersion of repolarization, has been linked to malignant ventricular arrhythmias in various settings but leads to discordant results in BS

Can CoastAppli (a citizen science smartphone app) improve monitoring and understanding of coastal hazards to support coastal management?

International audienceCoastal erosion and flooding remain unknown hazards and elected officials and coastal managers may have difficulty discussing these phenomena with the general public. However, a better knowledge of the evolution of these hazards, through citizen science, can help raise awareness of coastal dynamics among the general public and thus meet the current and future challenges of coastal management. During the OSIRISC project (2016-2020), funded by the Fondation de France, coastal managers wanted to set up a smartphone app to save time during their field surveys, while allowing citizens to perform some measurements. How to create a citizen science app on coastal hazards that is reliable and intelligible and that guarantees the sustainable support of participants (professionals and non professionals)? Within the framework of the observatory of coastal risks in Brittany (OSIRISC), protocols for measuring hazards 1) with common tools (benchmarks such as the size of one's finger, qualitative data with photographs) or cheap tools (tape measure, laser distance meter...), 2) applicable to all types of coasts (beach, cliff…) have been co-designed with the managers and integrated into the android app called CoastAppli. Co-funded by EUR ISblue (the interdisciplinary graduate school for the blue planet), Sea-Eu and Interreg AGEO projects, CoastAppli is currently being tested for 6 months (until April 2022) in the municipality of Guissény (Brittany, France) by grade school students, coastal managers and citizens. The feedback from this test will allow us to know: i) the reliability of the measurements; ii) whether the app meets the expectations of the coastal managers by saving time for data collection in the field; iii) the app ability to be understood and educative; iv) the sustainability of the commitment of the citizens. These results are essential to validate the application before a future deployment that is intended in Brittany, then in France and beyond

Relation of outcomes to ABC (Atrial Fibrillation Better Care) pathway adherent care in European patients with atrial fibrillation: an analysis from the ESC-EHRA EORP Atrial Fibrillation General Long-Term (AFGen LT) Registry

International audienceAbstract Aims There has been an increasing focus on integrated, multidisciplinary, and holistic care in the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF). The ‘Atrial Fibrillation Better Care’ (ABC) pathway has been proposed to streamline integrated care in AF. We evaluated the impact on outcomes of an ABC adherent management in a contemporary real-life European-wide AF cohort. Methods and results Patients enrolled in the ESC-EHRA EURObservational Research Programme in AF General Long-Term Registry with baseline data to evaluate ABC criteria and available follow-up data were considered for this analysis. Among the original 11 096 AF patients enrolled, 6646 (59.9%) were included in this analysis, of which 1996 (30.0%) managed as ABC adherent. Patients adherent to ABC care had lower CHA2DS2-VASc and HAS-BLED scores (mean ± SD, 2.68 ± 1.57 vs. 3.07 ± 1.90 and 1.26 ± 0.93 vs. 1.58 ± 1.12, respectively; P < 0.001). At 1-year follow-up, patients managed adherent to ABC pathway compared to non-adherent ones had a lower rate of any thromboembolic event (TE)/acute coronary syndrome (ACS)/cardiovascular (CV) death (3.8% vs. 7.6%), CV death (1.9% vs. 4.8%), and all-cause death (3.0% vs. 6.4%) (all P < 0.0001). On Cox multivariable regression analysis, ABC adherent care showed an association with a lower risk of any TE/ACS/CV death [hazard ratio (HR): 0.59, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.44–0.79], CV death (HR: 0.52, 95% CI: 0.35–0.78), and all-cause death (HR: 0.57, 95% CI: 0.43–0.78). Conclusion In a large contemporary cohort of European AF patients, a clinical management adherent to ABC pathway for integrated care is associated with a significant lower risk for cardiovascular events, CV death, and all-cause death

Impact of partial steps and momentum advection schemes in a global ocean circulation model at eddy-permitting resolution

Series of sensitivity tests were performed with a z-coordinate, global eddy-permitting (1/4º) ocean/sea-ice model (the ORCA-R025 model configuration developed for the DRAKKAR project) to carefully evaluate the impact of recent state-of-the-art numerical schemes on model solutions. The combination of an energy-enstrophy conserving (EEN) scheme for momentum advection with a partial step (PS) representation of the bottom topography yields significant improvements in the mean circulation. Well known biases in the representation of western boundary currents, such as in the Atlantic the detachment of the Gulf Stream, the path of the North Atlantic Current, the location of the Confluence, and the strength of the Zapiola Eddy in the south Atlantic, are partly corrected. Similar improvements are found in the Pacific, Indian, and Southern Oceans, and characteristics of the mean flow are generally much closer to observations. Comparisons with other state-of-the-art models show that the ORCA-R025 configuration generally performs better at similar resolution. In addition, the model solution is often comparable to solutions obtained at 1/6 or 1/10º resolution in some aspects concerning mean flow patterns and distribution of eddy kinetic energy. Although the reasons for these improvements are not analyzed in detail in this paper, evidence is shown that the combination of EEN with PS reduces numerical noise near the bottom, which is likely to affect current-topography interactions in a systematic way. We conclude that significant corrections of the mean biases presently seen in general circulation model solutions at eddy-permitting resolution can still be expected from the development of numerical methods, which represent an alternative to increasing resolution