The observation of seiches in the Baltic Sea using a multi data set of water levels

Long-term variability and trends of sea level storminess and extremes in European Seas

“…This is likely because the fundamental Baltic seiche does not appear at super-diurnal frequencies, since its period is around 39 h (Metzner et al, 2000) and its amplitude in Wladyslawowo is much lower than the amplitude of the fundamental Adriatic seiche at Rovinj. However, the extreme Wladyslawowo super-diurnal values are similar to the Rovinj extremes, as the Baltic Sea is occasionally hit by deep and fast cyclones that are not present in the Adriatic Sea.…”

Meteotsunamis: atmospherically induced destructive ocean waves in the tsunami frequency band

“…Balearic Islands (cf. Fontseré, 1934;Ramis and Jansà, 1983;Tintoré et al, 1988;Monserrat et al, 1991a); "marubbio" in Sicily (Colucci and Michelato, 1976;Candela et al, 1999); "milghuba" in Malta (Airy, 1878;Drago, 1999), "abiki" in Nagasaki Bay, Japan (Honda et al, 1908;Akamatsu, 1982;Hibiya and Kajiura, 1982), and "Seebär" in the Baltic Sea (Defant, 1961;Metzner et al, 2000). These waves are also documented in the Yellow Sea (Wang et al, 1987), the Adriatic Sea (Hodžić, 1979(Hodžić, /1980Orlić, 1980;Vilibić et al, 2004Vilibić et al, , 2005, the Aegean Sea (Papadopoulos, 1993), the English Channel (Douglas, 1929), the Great Lakes (Ewing et al, 1954;Donn and Ewing, 1956;Harris, 1957;Platzman, 1958Platzman, , 1965Donn, 1959;Irish, 1965), the northwestern Atlantic coast (Donn and McGuinness, 1960;Donn and Balachandran, 1969;Mercer et al, 2002), the Argentine coast (Dragani et al, 2002), and the New Zealand coast (Goring, 2003(Goring, , 2005).…”

Extreme sea level events in the coastal waters of western Estonia

“…The historical range of maximum sea level fluctuations at both ends of the elongated Baltic Sea is up to 5.7-5.8 m, while in the central part of the sea the range is between 2 and 3 m. 27.4 h is the well-known seiche period for the Baltic Proper -Gulf of Finland system and about 39 h for the Baltic Proper -Gulf of Bothnia system (e.g. Wübber and Krauss, 1979;Metzner et al, 2000). Estonia is located in the central part of the Baltic Proper near the nodal line of the Baltic quasistationary sea level slope (0.18 m towards SW according to Lazarenko, 1986) and the largest (about 27 h) seiche, but due to the complex configuration of its coastal waters and the existence of some semienclosed sub-basins (Fig.…”