meteotsunami
nounEtymology Blend of meteorological + tsunami.
1
Climatology, Geography, Meteorology, Natural sciences, Oceanography A tsunami-like wave of meteorological origin.
- These surface waves are associated with two ma- jor sources of forcing: seismic activity (tsunamis) and atmospheric disturbances (meteotsunami).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:
- Related terms
- ice tsunami, megatsunami, tsunami, ice shove, seiche, storm surge