Two simulations of the response of Adriatic Sea to severe wind per-formed by an atmosphere-ocean coupled model and the comparisons with ob-served data and modelled fields published in literature are presented. The model RAMS-DieCAST was applied to simulate the variations of sea currents and temperature profiles, from surface to bottom, induced by two ep-isodes of intense wind over the Adriatic sea: a Bora wind event that occurred in January 1995 and a Sirocco wind event in November 2002. The results of the simulations are compared with observed data at the sea surface. In the Bora episode, the computed surface temperatures are com-pared with satellite SSTs and in situ observed temperatures; in the Sirocco event the simulated surface currents and temperatures are compared with ex-perimental data collected by surface drifters released in different regions of the Adriatic Sea during the same Sirocco event. In both episodes the simulated temperature trends agree with the ob-served values and during the Sirocco episode the current fields are in quite good agreement with the drifter data. The modelled sea temperature and velocity fields show also a good con-cordance with other simulation results in literature.