Meteotsunamis: Atmospherically induced destructive ocean waves in the tsunami frequency band

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1035-1051

  Monserrat, S ^a,b   Vilibic I ^c   Rabinovich, A B ^d,e  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Croatia)

^d SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROTROPIC WAVE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GRAVITY WAVE; METEOROLOGICAL HAZARD; SEISMIC SOURCE; TSUNAMI;

EID: 33845512529     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-6-1035-2006     Document Type: Article

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