meteotsunami
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See also: météotsunami and météo-tsunami
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of meteorological + tsunami.
Noun
[edit]meteotsunami (plural meteotsunamis)
- (oceanography, meteorology) A tsunami-like wave of meteorological origin.
- Synonym: meteorological tsunami
- 1998 June 15, S Monserrat, “On the reconstruction of the transfer function for atmospherically generated seiches”, in Geophysical Research Letters, volume 25, number 12, page 2197:
- These surface waves are associated with two ma- jor sources of forcing: seismic activity (tsunamis) and atmospheric disturbances (meteotsunami).
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