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This study investigates interactions between waves, water levels and currents at the mouth of the second largest estuary in Europe (the Tagus Estuary, Portugal) under storm waves, combining field observations and a threedimensional fully coupled wave-current modelling system. Tidal-induced water depth variations substantially modulate waves over the ebb shoal. During energetic conditions, low tide levels promote depth-limited wave breaking and energy transfer towards higher harmonics (triad interactions), which reduces wave heights and periods. Furthermore, for a given water level, tidal currents also influence wave propagation and drive strong modulations over shallow regions characterized by cross-channel current gradients. Flood currents change the mean wave direction by about 10

Continental Portugal presents an extensive and diversified coastal zone which concentrates the main public andprivate infrastructures of the different economic sectors, as well as the main critical infrastructures. This area isalso characterized by a high population density, being a differentiated territory in geophysical, biological andlandscape terms. The wave regime is highly energetic, and storms are frequent. In the last decades, the coast ofcontinental Portugal has been affected numerous times by overtopping and coastal flooding processes. Identifyingthe critical coastal typologies affected by flooding can contribute to a comprehensive flood risk managementframework for the Portuguese coastal zones. Hence, a historical database of coastal flooding occurrenceswas created for the period 1980