Meteorological Tsunamis: The U.S. East Coast and other Coastal Regions - various authors [2015, PDF]

Meteorological Tsunamis: The U.S. East Coast and other Coastal Regions

Year: 2015
Language: english
Author: various authors
Genre: Technical book
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 978-3-319-12711-8
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 302
Description:
Meteorological tsunamis are significant, even devastating, sea level oscillations at the coast with the same frequencies and spatial scales as typical tsunami waves, related not to seismic activity, volcanic explosions or submarine landslides, but to atmospheric forcing: atmospheric gravity waves, pressure jumps, frontal passages, squalls.
The book encompasses a set of articles on meteorological tsunamis, covering various aspects on this phenomenon. Altogether an editorial and 15 contributions are part of this book; eight of the contributions deal with different aspects of meteotsunamis along the U.S. East Coast and in the region of the Great Lakes, including one paper introducing a new methodology in meteotsunami research. Seven more papers are documenting meteotsunamis in various coastal areas of the world oceans, such as Gulf of Finland and Adriatic Sea. All continents, except Antarctica, have been covered, with the authors representing 11 countries.