Minute Sea-Level Analysis (MISELA): a high-frequency sea-level analysis global dataset

Type Article
Date 2021-08
Language English
Author(s) Zemunik Petra1, Sepic JadrankaORCID2, Pellikka HavuORCID3, Catipovic Leon2, Vilibic Ivica1, 4
Affiliation(s) 1 : Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Šetalište I. Meštrovica 63, 21000 Split, Croatia
2 : Faculty of Science, University of Split, R. Boškovica 33, 21000 Split, Croatia
3 : Finnish Meteorological Institute, P.O. Box 503, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
4 : Ruder Boškovic Institute, Division for Marine and Environmental Research, Bijenicka cesta 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Source Earth System Science Data (1866-3508) (Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh), 2021-08 , Vol. 13 , N. 8 , P. 4121-4132
DOI 10.5194/essd-13-4121-2021
WOS© Times Cited 10
Abstract

Sea-level observations provide information on a variety of processes occurring over different temporal and spatial scales that may contribute to coastal flooding and hazards. However, global research on sea-level extremes is restricted to hourly datasets, which prevent the quantification and analyses of processes occurring at timescales between a few minutes and a few hours. These shorter-period processes, like seiches, meteotsunamis, infragravity and coastal waves, may even dominate in low tidal basins. Therefore, a new global 1 min sea-level dataset - MISELA (Minute Sea-Level Analysis) - has been developed, encompassing quality-checked records of nonseismic sea-level oscillations at tsunami timescales (T < 2 h) obtained from 331 tide-gauge sites (https://doi.org/10.14284/456, Zemunik et al., 2021b). This paper describes data quality control procedures applied to the MISELA dataset, world and regional coverage of tide-gauge sites, and lengths of time series. The dataset is appropriate for global, regional or local research of atmospherically induced high-frequency sea-level oscillations, which should be included in the overall sea-level extremes assessments.

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