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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 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. All continents, except Antarctica, have been
covered, with the authors representing 11 countries. Previously
Published in Natural Hazards, Volume 74, No. 1, 2014
This book contains a collection of papers from the special issue on
the global perspective on meteotsunami science, published in Vol.
106 (2) of the journal Natural Hazards. By topic, the contributions
are covering overview studies, case studies of actual events,
introduction of new insights into meteotsunami modelling, new
techniques in meteotsunami monitoring and detection, and those
describing meteotsunami operational and forecast systems. More than
half of all papers describe specific meteotsunami events observed
in most of the world ocean basins, some others at a rudimentary
level recall previous extreme episodes, while several papers
contain thorough analysis of either atmospheric conditions or
oceanic sea-level response. The book is intended for specialists in
oceanography and atmospheric sciences, tsunami and fluid dynamics
scientists, climatologists, coastal hazard agencies and managers,
ocean engineers and many others, including students and science
policy-makers, in particular in the regions affected by this
potentially destructive coastal hazard. The chapters "Proudman
resonance with tides, bathymetry and variable atmospheric
forcings", "Long wave generation and coastal amplification due to
propagating atmospheric pressure disturbances", "On the potential
of ensemble forecasting for the prediction of meteotsunamis in the
Balearic Islands: sensitivity to atmospheric model
parameterizations", and "Combined hazard of typhoon-generated
meteorological tsunamis and storm surges along the coast of Japan"
are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License via link.springer.com. Previously published
in Natural Hazards, Volume 106, Issue 2, 2021
The 2011 Tohoku earthquake generated a tsunami that caused severe
damage including 20,000 casualties in Japan. The tsunami also
affected other Pacific coasts, including the Kuril Islands, the
USA, French Polynesia, the Galapagos Islands, Australia, and New
Zealand. This volume contains an introduction and 21papers, mostly
presented at the 25th International Tsunami Symposium held 1-4 July
2011, only four months after the tsunami. They report seismological
aspects of the event related to the tsunami warning, the tsunami
impacts and effects in Japan and around the Pacific, analyses of
instrumental tsunami data and modelling.
The 2010 tsunamis generated in Haiti, Chile, and Indonesia caused
various damage on the coasts. In the past, the 1755 Lisbon, 1964
Alaska, and 2003 Algeria earthquakes also generated damaging
tsunamis. This volume contains an introduction and 18 papers,
mostly presented at the 25th International Tsunami Symposium held
1-4 July 2011. They report the above tsunamis and discuss tsunami
DART observations, warning systems, risk management in the Pacific,
modelling of earthquake and landslide tsunamis, and probabilistic
tsunami hazard assessment.
This book presents the frontiers of tsunami science and research
and demonstrates the unprecedented progress achieved during this
period overviewing different aspect of tsunami science including
meteorological tsunamis. The two 1992 events near Nicaragua and
Flores Island, Indonesia, marked the beginning of a "modern tsunami
science era" producing highly destructive tsunamis and opened a
25-year period of numerous devastating events, including two of the
most destructive natural disasters in recent human history: the 26
December 2004 Sumatra and the 11 March 2011 Tohoku tsunamis. The
book is of interest to scientists and practitioners as well
postgraduate students in geophysics, oceanography and coastal
engineering, involved in all aspects of tsunamis, from earthquake
source processes to transoceanic wave propagation, from coastal
impacts to hazard assessment and combining recent case studies with
advances in tsunami science and natural hazards mitigation.
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