Destructive meteotsunamis along the eastern Adriatic coast: Overview

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 34, Issue 17-18, 2009, Pages 904-917

  Vilibić, Ivica ^a   Šepić, Jadranka ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Adriatic Sea; Atmospheric disturbance; Long ocean waves; Meteotsunami; Resonance

Indexed keywords

ADRIATIC; ADRIATIC SEA; ADRIATIC SHELF; AMPLIFICATION FACTORS; APENNINES; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCE; ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING; CONVECTIVE STORMS; HOT SPOT; LONG DISTANCES; LONG OCEAN WAVES; METEOTSUNAMI; MOUNTAIN RIDGES; OCEAN WAVES; REANALYSIS; SPATIAL SCALE; SYNOPTIC CONDITIONS; WARNING SYSTEMS;

AMPLIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COASTAL ZONES; LANDFORMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RESONANCE; WATER WAVES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DISTURBANCE; GRAVITY WAVE; MODELING; OCEAN WAVE; RESONANCE; STORM; TROPOSPHERE; TSUNAMI; WARNING SYSTEM; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE HEIGHT;

ADRIATIC SEA; BALEARIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 70449529437     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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