Ocean Sciences

Elena Terzić

Elena Terzić is a research associate at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb, Croatia. Her research covers ocean thermohaline variability, marine bio-optical properties and biogeochemical processes in the Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas, with a focus on Argo and Biogeochemical-Argo observations combined with satellite data and numerical models.

The Adriatic Sea in transition: from rapid deep warming to a saltier water column

Elena Terzić and Ivica Vilibić November 13, 2026

Two horizontal bar charts comparing warming (orange) and salinification (blue) rates across four depth layers. Warming increases sharply with depth, peaking at 6.2x in the deepest layer.

The Mediterranean Sea has long been known to warm much faster than the global ocean. Within it, the Adriatic Sea is a particularly sensitive basin – due to its small size, representing 5% of the area and only 1% of the volume of the Mediterranean, it reacts rapidly to changes in air-sea interactions, precipitation and …[Read More]