2025/02/14 by Meyer, Elke M.I., Gaslikova, Lidia, Groll, Nikolaus +1 · 1 voice
#DWD reconstruction 1872 #FOS: Natural sciences #Küsteningenieurwesen #Meeresregionen #severe storm surge Baltic Sea #similar weather situation #strong pressure gradient over the western Baltic Sea
paper · doi:10.18171/1.094106
The Baltic Sea storm surge of 20 October 2023 was one of the highest observed on the east coast of Schleswig-Holstein. The storm of 13 November 1872 is still the highest rec-orded one in the western Baltic Sea in the last two centuries. In Flensburg, a water level of 3.31 m during the November 1872 event and 2.27 m in October 2023 were observed. Both storm events occurred in autumn and are characterised by a similar atmospheric weather situation with a stationary high pressure area over Scandinavia and a low pressure area over Central Europe. This led to a strong pressure gradient over the western Baltic Sea and resulted in strong easterly winds with up to 30 m/s at Lighthouse Kiel and particularly high wind surges, which in both cases challenged the coastal protection at the east coast of Schleswig-Holstein.