Meteorological tsunamis on the US East Coast and in other regions of the World Ocean

Introduction Meteorological tsunamis (meteotsunamis) are significant, even devastating, sea level oscillations (seiches) at the coast with the same frequencies and spatial scales as typical tsunami waves, related not to seismic activity, volcanic explosions or submarine landslides, but to atmospheric forcing: atmospheric gravity waves, pressure jumps, frontal passages, squalls, etc. (Monserrat et al. 2006). In recent years, this phenomenon has attracted much attention, because several destructive meteotsunamis occurred in various parts of the world oceans, in particular in Spain, Croatia, Japan and the East Coast of the USA.Actually, strong sea level oscillations associated with atmospheric activity were known in some countries for a long time. These oscillations are called "abiki" and "yota" in Japan, "rissaga" or "resaca" in Spain, "sciga" in Croatia, "marrubbio" or "marrobbio" in Sicily, "milghuba" in Malta, "Seebar" in Baltic countries, "death waves" in Western Ireland and "inchas"... Language: en