The first attempt at cataloguing tsunami-like waves of meteorological origin in Croatian coastal waters

Abstract

       A catalogue of waves, which belong to the same frequency band as tsunamis but are of meteorological origin, is compiled for the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea. The catalogue presently includes 21 flooding events observed between the years 1931 and 2010. The areas most often affected were Vela Luka on the island of Korčula and Stari Grad on the island of Hvar. A majority of the events occurred in the warm part of the year. The events tended to start either early in the morning or late in the afternoon, to last between 1 and 6 hours, and to be dominated by sea-level oscillations of 10-40 min periods. The largest trough-to-crest height of 6 m was observed in Vela Luka on 21 June 1978.