Twenty-Seven Years of Progress in the Science of Meteorological Tsunamis Following the 1992 Daytona Beach Event

Rabinovich, Alexander B.

doi:10.1007/s00024-019-02349-3

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“…In recent years, meteotsunamis have attracted significant attention from scientists and specialists. A number of devastating meteotsunami events occurred in various parts of world oceans, including the coasts of North and South America, SE Asia, South Africa and Australia, as well as the Great Lakes (Pattiaratchi and Wijeratne 2015;Rabinovich 2020). The 3.5-m Dayyer meteotsunami of 19 March 2017 killed five people and severely destructed local infrastructure on the coast of the Persian Gulf (Salaree et al 2018;Heidarzadeh et al 2020a).…”

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“…In bays, inlets, harbours and lakes, meteotsunamis, as well as seismically generated tsunamis, have the same character of eigen oscillations of the corresponding basins, i.e. "extreme seiches" (Rabinovich 2009(Rabinovich , 2020.…”

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“…Various types of atmospheric disturbances can produce meteotsunamis. In general, all meteotsunamis may be divided into two principal groups: "good-weather" and "badweather" (Rabinovich 2020). The events of the first group are mostly generated by smallscale air-pressure disturbances, or by propagating atmospheric gravity waves (cf.…”

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“…Both meteotsunamis and storm surges are atmospherically induced events. Therefore, for scientists and authorities working on hazard mitigation and coastal engineering, it appears to be difficult to distinguish the differences between these two phenomena (Rabinovich 2020). However, meteotsunamis and storm surges have quite dissimilar temporal and spatial scales and principally have different generation mechanisms.…”

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“…Meteotsunamis have the same periods and other properties as ordinary tsunami waves; in harbours and bays ("harbour meteotsunamis") they have a scale of the corresponding local basins and periods determined exactly by natural (eigen) periods of the basins. This means that their spatial scales are from a few hundred metres to a few tens of kilometres and their periods from 1 to 2 min to approximately two hours (Rabinovich 2020).…”

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Combined hazard of typhoon-generated meteorological tsunamis and storm surges along the coast of Japan

Heidarzadeh

Rabinovich

2020

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Two hazardous typhoons, Lionrock (August 2016) and Jebi (September 2018), destructively affected the coast of Japan and produced extreme sea level variations. The results of field surveys in the impacted regions showed that multiple deaths and extensive floods were caused by the combined effect of low-frequency sea level raise (storm surges) and intensive high-frequency (HF) tsunami-like waves (meteotsunamis). The data from ten tide gauges for the 2016 event and eight gauges for the 2018 event were used to examine the properties of the observed sea levels, to estimate the relative contribution of the two sea level components and to evaluate their statistical characteristics (maximum wave heights, amplitudes and periods of individual components, etc.). For the 2016 event, we found that the surge heights were from 12 to 35 cm and that the mean contribution of surges into the total observed sea level heights was ~ 39%; the meteotsunami amplitudes were from 22 to 92 cm, and they contributed 61% of the total height. For the 2018 event, storm surges were significantly stronger, from 46 to 170 cm, while HF amplitudes were from 38 to 130 cm; their relative inputs were 67% and 33%, respectively. Combined, they formed total flood heights of up to 120 cm (2016 event) and 288 cm (2018 event). Previously, the contribution of storm seiches (meteotsunamis) in coastal floods had been underestimated, but results of the present study demonstrate that they can play the principal role. What is even more important, they produce devastating currents: according to our estimates, current speeds were up to 3 knots (1.5 m/s) during the Lionrock event and more than 5 knots (2.6 m/s) during Jebi; these strong currents appear to be the main reason for the resulting damage of coastal infrastructure. The most important characteristic of the recorded meteotsunamis is their trough-to-crest maximum height. During the 2016 event, these heights at three stations were > 1 m: 171 cm at Erimo, 109 cm at Hachijojima and 102 cm at Ayukawa. The 2018 event was stronger; maximum meteotsunami wave heights were 257 cm at Gobo, 138 cm at Kushimoto, 137 cm at Kumano and 128 cm at Murotomisaki. The 2018 Gobo height of 257 cm is much larger than historical non-seismic seiche maxima for the Pacific coast of Japan (140–169 cm) estimated by Nakano and Unoki (1962) for the period of 1930–1956.

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Combined hazard of typhoon-generated meteorological tsunamis and storm surges along the coast of Japan

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Rabinovich

2020

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Destructive potential of planetary meteotsunami waves beyond the Hunga volcano eruption (Tonga)

Denamiel

Vasylkevych

Žagar

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Worldwide tsunamis generated by atmospheric waves -or planetary meteotsunami waves -are extremely rare events occurring during supervolcano explosions or asteroid impacts. Recently, such waves have been globally recorded after the Hunga volcano eruption (Tonga) but did not pose any serious danger to the coastal communities. However, this study highlights that the mostly ignored destructive potential of planetary meteotsunami waves can be compared to the well-studied tsunami hazards. Through simple numerical experiments we indeed prove that meteotsunami surges above 1.00 m can be generated along more than 7 % of the world coastlines by atmospheric waves either more intense or slower than during the Hunga event. Consequently, the global meteotsunami hazards should now be properly assessed to prepare for the next big volcanic eruption or asteroid impact.

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Geological and Climatic Features, Processes and Interplay Determining the Human Occupation and Habitation of Easter Island

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Margalef

Becerril

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The Prehistory of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

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Twenty-Seven Years of Progress in the Science of Meteorological Tsunamis Following the 1992 Daytona Beach Event

Cited by 92 publications

References 88 publications

Combined hazard of typhoon-generated meteorological tsunamis and storm surges along the coast of Japan

Combined hazard of typhoon-generated meteorological tsunamis and storm surges along the coast of Japan

Destructive potential of planetary meteotsunami waves beyond the Hunga volcano eruption (Tonga)

Geological and Climatic Features, Processes and Interplay Determining the Human Occupation and Habitation of Easter Island

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