caa a22 4500 605546444 CHVBK 20210128100941.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10236-015-0835-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10236-015-0835-9 Severe flooding along the eastern Adriatic coast: the case of 1 December 2008 [Elektronische Daten] [Iva Međugorac, Miroslava Pasarić, Mirko Orlić] This paper addresses an extraordinary storm surge in the Northern Adriatic that was more pronounced on the eastern than on the western shore. On 1 December 2008, Adriatic monitoring stations detected exceptionally high sea levels; the oldest Croatian tide gauge station recorded the highest water level in its operating history at the time. Apart from the Northern Adriatic, large portion of the Dalmatian Coast was also exposed to high water levels, while Venice experienced a less-dramatic event. This marine storm was different from the capital storm of 4 November 1966 during which the surge had the highest impact ahead of Venice and along the north-western coastline. The 2008 event is studied here in detail, and the mechanisms that resulted in the different flooding of the two shores are identified. The study is based on hourly sea level, air pressure and wind data measured along both basin sides together with ECMWF reanalysis fields. Four components of sea-level evolution are identified: the storm surge, tide, Adriatic seiche and, low-frequency variability. The 2008 event was the outcome of a fine interplay between the first three components, which were all superimposed on the raised sea level due to low-frequency variability. The marine storm differed from the 1966 storm in the atmospheric forcing and relative timing of all contributing processes. The 2008 flooding of the eastern coast was mainly due to the Sirocco-wind shear, whereas the 1966 flooding of the western coast was due to the combined effect of almost uniform Sirocco and bottom slope. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 Northern Adriatic nationallicence Exceptional sea level nationallicence Acqua alta nationallicence Storm surge nationallicence Međugorac Iva Faculty of Science, Andrija Mohorovičić Geophysical Institute, University of Zagreb, Horvatovac 95, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia aut Pasarić Miroslava Faculty of Science, Andrija Mohorovičić Geophysical Institute, University of Zagreb, Horvatovac 95, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia aut Orlić Mirko Faculty of Science, Andrija Mohorovičić Geophysical Institute, University of Zagreb, Horvatovac 95, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia aut Ocean Dynamics Springer Berlin Heidelberg 65/6(2015-06-01), 817-830 1616-7341 65:6<817 2015 65 10236 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-015-0835-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-015-0835-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Međugorac Iva Faculty of Science, Andrija Mohorovičić Geophysical Institute, University of Zagreb, Horvatovac 95, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pasarić Miroslava Faculty of Science, Andrija Mohorovičić Geophysical Institute, University of Zagreb, Horvatovac 95, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Orlić Mirko Faculty of Science, Andrija Mohorovičić Geophysical Institute, University of Zagreb, Horvatovac 95, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ocean Dynamics Springer Berlin Heidelberg 65/6(2015-06-01), 817-830 1616-7341 65:6<817 2015 65 10236