Aimee Slangen¹, Matthew D Palmer², Carolina Camargo³, John Church⁴, Tamsin Louisa Edwards⁵, Tim Hermans⁶, Helene Hewitt⁷, Gregory Garner⁸, Jonathan M Gregory⁹, Robert Kobb¹⁰, Víctor Malagón-Santos¹¹, Roderik van de Wal¹², Marjolijn Haasnoot¹³, Gundula Winter¹³ and H2020 PROTECT consortium, (1)Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands, (2)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)University of New South Wales, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (5)King's College London, London, United Kingdom, (6)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (7)Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, (8)Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States, (9)Met Office Hadley Centre and National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, (10)Rutgers University, Piscataway, United States, (11)NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Yerseke, Netherlands, (12)Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, (13)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands