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Development Of A Forecast Process For Meteotsunami Events In The Gulf Of Mexico, Leilani D. Paxton
Development Of A Forecast Process For Meteotsunami Events In The Gulf Of Mexico, Leilani D. Paxton
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this research was to provide a better understanding of meteotsunamis over the eastern Gulf of Mexico along the west coast of Florida and to develop a process for forecasting those events. Meteotsunami waves develop from resonant effects of strong pressure perturbations greater than 1 hPa, moving in excess of 10 m s-1, over water areas up to around 100 m in depth. Meteotsunami events over 0.3 m in height, as measured by three primary NOAA coastal tide gauges at Cedar Key, Clearwater Beach, and Naples, from 2007-2015, impact the Florida Gulf coastline several times per …