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A regional analysis is essential for early warning of upcoming changes that could, firstly, affect islands and coastal areas and, subsequently, expand on larger areas. The determined regional changes could affect the salinity of drinking water sources, increase the presence of natural flooding, and impact land degradation. In this paper, an analysis of local seawater level fluctuations is provided for three available locations in Croatia distributed along the Adriatic Sea\u2019s coast. The rescaled adjusted partial sums (RAPS) method was used and applied on time series of the average daily seawater levels for each location. Visual interpretation of the RAPS method indicated the appearance of common regularities of the observed quantities, in this case, averaged daily seawater level changes. Also, it was shown that the regional shape and indentation of the coast did not have a strong effect on the seawater level\u2019s rise. Seasonal changes in the sea level are mostly periodic and, therefore, have symmetry visible in its behavior. Fluctuations in the dynamics of sea level studied in this paper were not regular and predictable with simple linear equations, but the symmetry was also found to be present in the irregularities identified with the RAPS method.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym13020289","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,10]],"date-time":"2021-02-10T04:33:46Z","timestamp":1612931626000},"page":"289","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Identifying the Dynamics of the Sea-Level Fluctuations in Croatia Using the RAPS Method"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Danko","family":"Markovinovi\u0107","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, University North, Jurja Kri\u017eani\u0107a 31b, 42000 Vara\u017edin, Croatia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7219-9440","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nikola","family":"Kranj\u010di\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Geotechnical Engineering, University of Zagreb, Hallerova aleja 7, 42000 Vara\u017edin, Croatia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2361-8036","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bojan","family":"\u0110urin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, University North, Jurja Kri\u017eani\u0107a 31b, 42000 Vara\u017edin, Croatia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9796-3094","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Olga","family":"Bjelotomi\u0107 Or\u0161uli\u0107","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"IGEA Ltd., Frana Supila 7\/b, 42000 Vara\u017edin, Croatia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Shennan, I. 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