{"id":2964,"date":"1996-11-27T11:38:00","date_gmt":"1996-11-27T09:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/storm-surges\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T10:22:14","slug":"episode-15-26-november-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/storm-surges\/episode-15-26-november-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 15, 26 November 1996"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Episode 15, 26 November 1996<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Description<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Meteorological background
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In the week before the flood, an upper-level trough extending from Scandinavia to southern Europe affected the Adriatic region. Advected warm and humid air led to the formation of several cyclones with frontal disturbances, causing moderate precipitation and variable winds across the Adriatic. On the night of 25\u201326 November, a low-pressure system formed over the Gulf of Genoa and moved towards the northern Adriatic, strengthening southerly and southeasterly winds across the basin. The cyclone then progressed southeastward along the Adriatic.
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Sea-level evolution<\/u><\/p>\n

On 26 November 1996, at 06:00 UTC, the sea level in Bakar rose to 90 cm above the long-term average. This peak closely aligned with the daily tidal maximum, with tide<\/i> contributing 25 cm. In the week preceding the flood, several cyclones crossed the region, generating and repeatedly amplifying Adriatic seiches (T~21.2 hours). Synoptic sea-level series show that the final amplification occurred during the first half of 24 November, placing the seiche in a positive phase as the storm surge developed. The flood’s main maximum occurred shortly after synoptic component<\/i> peaked at 33 cm.
The remaining sea-level rise resulted from processes acting on other time scales (refer to Figure 1 in the Introduction for detailed explanations): high-frequency oscillations<\/i> added 7 cm, planetary-scale variability<\/i> contributed 5 cm, and long-term sea-level change<\/i> added 20 cm.<\/p>


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In summary, the flood resulted from positive effects of all sea-level processes, with synoptic component<\/i> and tide<\/i> being the most significant.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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For this flood, the available daily newspapers in the National and University Library was reviewed. However, no mentions of the event impacts were found. The reason for this is unknown.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sea-level series for the flood of 26 November 1996: measured (black), tide (green), combined long-period component and mean sea-level changes (grey), synoptic component (purple), and local processes (blue). The inset figure shows the contributions (cm) of the five sea-level components to the maximum measured sea level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storm-surge","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/storm-surges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/storm-surges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/storm-surges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/storm-surges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/storm-surges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/storm-surges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4667,"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/storm-surges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions\/4667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/storm-surges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/storm-surges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/storm-surges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekti.pmfst.unist.hr\/floods\/storm-surges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}