Meteorological Tsunamis: The U.S. East Coast and Other Coastal Regions
The book encompasses a set of papers on meteorological tsunamis covering various aspects on this rare but potentially destructive multiresonant phenomenon. Altogether an editorial and 15 contributions are part of this book; eight of
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Ivica Vilibic´ · Sebastian Monserrat · Alexander B. Rabinovich Editors
Meteorological Tsunamis: The U.S. East Coast and other Coastal Regions
Previously published in Natural Hazards Volume 74, Issue 1, 2014
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Editors Ivica Vilibic´ Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries Split, Croatia Email: [email protected]
Alexander B. Rabinovich Russian Academy of Sciences P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology Moscow, Russia Department of Fisheries and Oceans Institute of Ocean Sciences Sidney, B.C., Canada Email: [email protected]
Sebastian Monserrat Institute for Advanced Studies IMEDEA (CSICUIB), Esporles, Spain Email: [email protected]
ISBN: 978-3-319-12711-8 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-12712-5
ISBN: 978-3-319-12712-5 (eBook)
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Contents
EDITORIAL
Meteorological tsunamis on the US East Coast and in other regions of the World Ocean I. Vilibic´ · S. Monserrat · A.B. Rabinovich 1 ORIGINAL PAPERS
Meteotsunami forecasting: sensitivities demonstrated by the 2008 Boothbay, Maine, event P. Whitmore · B. Knight 11 Atmospheric processes responsible for generation of th
