Catalogue of extreme sea levels recorded at tide-gauge station  Bakar in the northeastern Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean)

Međugorac, Iva; Jambrošić, Karla; Dolički, Domagoj; Kuzmić, Josipa; Šepić, Jadranka; Vrkić Seidl, Iva; Gašparac, Goran

doi:10.5194/os-21-2929-2025

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Catalogue of extreme sea levels recorded at tide-gauge station Bakar in the northeastern Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean)

Iva Međugorac, Karla Jambrošić, Domagoj Dolički, Josipa Kuzmić, Jadranka Šepić, Iva Vrkić Seidl, and Goran Gašparac

Data sets

Historical sea-level measurements at Bakar (east Adriatic) Iva Međugorac et al. https://doi.org/10.17882/85171

ERA5 hourly data on single levels from 1940 to present H. Hersbach et al. https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.adbb2d47

ERA5 hourly data on pressure levels from 1940 to present H. Hersbach et al. https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.bd0915c6

Short summary

Flooding caused by storm surges in the Adriatic Sea has been increasingly observed. To better understand this rise in occurrence, we compiled a catalogue of 27 major flood events, each analyzed with respect to the governing processes and associated coastal impacts. The analysis is based on ERA5 data and hourly sea levels recorded at Croatia’s oldest tide-gauge station, Bakar, in the period between 1929 and 2022.