Assessing meteotsunami potential of high-frequency air pressure oscillations observed in the middle Adriatic
Vilibic, I.; Mihanovic, H.; Charrayre, F. (2015). Assessing meteotsunami potential of high-frequency air pressure oscillations observed in the middle Adriatic, in: Vilibic, I. et al. Meteorological tsunamis: The U.S. East Coast and other coastal regions. pp. 217-232. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12712-5_12 In: Vilibic, I.; Montserrat, S.; Rabinovich, A.B. (Ed.) (2015). Meteorological tsunamis: The U.S. East Coast and other coastal regions. Previously published in Natural Hazards, Volume 74, Issue 1, 2014. Springer: Cham. ISBN 978-3-319-12711-8. 303 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12712-5, more |
| Keyword | | | Author keywords | Meteotsunamis Microbarographs Air pressure tendency Adriatic Sea |
| Authors | | Top | - Vilibic, I.
- Mihanovic, H.
- Charrayre, F.
| | |
| Abstract | High-resolution air pressure series collected from a triangle of middle Adriatic microbarograph stations between April 2009 and March 2011 have been analysed to extract the rapid pressure changes normally found during meteotsunamis. Five-minute air pressure tendencies were used to detect an event. Wavelet and cross-wavelet analysis showed that the energies of high-frequency pressure changes that occurred during the warm part of the year were an order of magnitude higher than those that occurred during the cold part of the year. Coherence between stations was normally found at periods longer than 1 h, while air pressure disturbances were dispersive and not coherent at shorter periods. This implies that the disturbances had little to no potential to generate meteotsunamis in the middle Adriatic area, as the eigenoscillations in bays and harbours of the region are over timescales of minutes up to a few tens of minutes. |
|
