Metres above the Adriatic
Meters above the Adriatic Sea is an indication of the height above sea level, based on 1875 and 1900 fixed average water levels of the Adriatic at the Molo Sartorio of Trieste. The information is today still used in Austria and the Yugoslav successor states. Other successor states of Austria - Hungary in the former Eastern Bloc were changed after the Second World War on the height definition Kronstadt level.
Abbreviations
Depending on your language, it is abbreviated differently:
- Austria: m above sea level. Adriatic m above sea level. A. or müa, ugs also altitude or height Adriatic
- Hungary: mAf of méter Adriatic felett
- Yugoslav successor states: m. i J. of Metara iznad Jadrana
Level
While valid for Austria as a reference value of the level of 1875, the level for the territories of the former Yugoslavia from 1900 used ( Nadmorska Visina, m / N ).
In Albania (normal - orthometric height ) are also used as altitude meters above the Adriatic Sea, with reference to a particular in the port city of Durres Durres level.
Height differences between Austria and its neighboring countries
In Austria, the orthometric height is used. The neighboring countries of Austria use different reference heights and methods, leading to differences between the elevation data. These amount to at national borders
- Germany: 25 to 34.6 cm ( normal height - Wall Horst - mean sea level )
- Italy: -0.5 to -3.2 cm ( orthometric height - level Genoa)
- Switzerland: -1.6 to -7.5 cm ( orthometric height - level Marseille - meters above sea level)
- Slovakia: 57 cm Average height ( metrov nad morom (m nm) - level Kronstadt)
- Slovenia: -8 to -12 cm (normal - orthometric height - level Trieste 1900)
- Czech Republic: 46 to 56.3 cm ( normal height - level Kronstadt)
- Hungary: 49.6 to 60.6 cm ( normal height, Hungarian Tengerszint Feletti magasság - level Kronstadt).
(Differences: HÖsterreich - HNachbarstaat )