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AMONG the “Notes” in NATURE, vol. xxv. p. 395, I read Prof. Naudin's opinion on the apparent lowering of the level of the Mediterranean along the whole Riviera during the months of January and February; but I think there is a far more simple explanation of the phenomenon. In Genoa we had for many days as much as 43 centimetres below the standard level, but that was caused by the northerly winds that prevailed during the abovementioned period, and which drove the water off the coast. Just now the lowering of the atmospheric pressure, that had been as high as 778 millimetres, gave a prevalence to southerly winds, and the sea reached again its former level.
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LUIGGI, L. The Level of the Mediterranean. Nature 25, 436–437 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/025436f0
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