Long-term meteorological preconditioning of the North Adriatic coastal floods

摘要

Flooding of the North Adriatic coast is examined through 14 years of hourly sea-level data, recorded at Bakar. The threshold-exceeding sea levels are studied in respect to four major components: (i) tides, (ii) elevations generated by synoptic and smaller-scale meteorological disturbances (storm surges and seiches of the Adriatic), (iii) low-frequency oscillations (0.01