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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-2137-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-2137-2025
Research article
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03 Jul 2025
Research article |  | 03 Jul 2025

Recent Baltic Sea storm surge events from a climate perspective

Nikolaus Groll, Lidia Gaslikova, and Ralf Weisse

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In recent years, the western Baltic Sea has experienced severe storm surges. By analysing the individual contributions and the total water level, these events can be put into a climate perspective. It was found that individual contributions were not exceptional in all events, and no clear trend can be identified. Often the combination of the individual contributions leads to the extreme events of recent years. This points to the importance of analysing composite events.
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