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STATUS OF TIDE-GAUGE STATIONS IN CROATIA Nenad Leder Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia 21000 Split, Zrinsko-Frankopanska 161, CROATIA e-mail: nenad.leder@dhi.tel.hr Systematic measurements of sea level in the Adriatic Sea began in 1859 in Trieste. Tide-gauge was housed at the end of Molo Sartorio. Tidal observations and measurements were carried out under administration of Accademica Nautica and later the Osservatorio Marittimo (Godin and Trotti, 1975). It is interesting that the official Geodetic Datum for Croatia is defined as the mean sea level at Trieste in 1875. Approximately at the same time Hydrographic Office of the Austro – Hungarian Navy installed tide-gauges at Rijeka, Lo?inj, Zadar, Hvar and Krf (Te?i?, 1955). These efforts had two purposes: first, a scientific research of tide, and second, to fulfill experimental demands of the hydrographic survey (safety of navigation). Since these first steps more than 40 tide-gauge stations have been placed at the eastern part of the Adriatic Sea. It should be pointed out that since 1859 various types of instruments have been installed and tide-gauge stations have changed their owners many times, to stirring history in these regions. The aim of this short review is to describe the present network of tide-gauge stations under the jurisdiction of the Republic of Croatia (Fig. 1). A special attention will be devoted to the stations with more than 50 years of permanent work and respectable historical time series of data. Fig. 1 shows a map of tide-gauge network stations in the Republic of Croatia. All types of tide-gauges are mechanical (Fig. 2). Types of tide-gauge, registration ratios, intervals of registration and owners are presented in Table 1. Tide-gauge stations at Rovinj, Split and Dubrovnik have been maintained by the Hydrographic Institute. Tide-gauge constant is checked twice a year at each station. Standard deviation of tide-gauge constants is not higher than ( 0.1 cm, indicating tha