Surge

Storm Surge a concern to coastal residents
One major cause of hurricane damage is storm surge. Storm surge is the rising of the sea level due to the low pressure, high winds, and high waves associated with a hurricane as it makes landfall.

SURGE
The increase in sea water height from the level that would normally occur were there no storm.

Surge A rise in water level caused by strong wind or fluctuations in the atmospheric pressure.

Surge
In solar-terrestrial terms, a jet of material from active regions that reaches coronal heights and then either fades or returns into the chromosphere along the trajectory of ascent.
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Dark Surge on Disk (DSD) - permalink - collapse
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Storm Surge
An abnormal rise in sea level accompanying a hurricane or other intense storm, and whose height is the difference between the observed level of the sea surface and the level that would have occurred in the absence of the cyclone.

Storm surge: The dome of water that builds up as a hurricane moves over water. As this water comes ashore with the storm, it causes flooding that is usually a hurricane's biggest killer.

Storm Surge - an atypical rise of the sea along a shore primarily resulting from the winds of a storm, especially those of a hurricane ...

Storm Surge: An abnormal rise local rise in sea level accompanying an intense storm system, either tropical or extratropical caused by the storm pushing a wall of water ahead of it.

Storm Surge- a rise above the usual water level along the shore that is the result of strong onshore winds and/or reduced atmospheric pressure; the actual surge height is the difference of the observed water level minus the predicted tide.

STORM SURGE: A rise of the sea, preceding a storm (usually a hurricane) due to the winds of the storm and low atmospheric pressure.

storm surge: a rise in sea level that comes with a hurricane or other intense storm.

Storm surge An abnormal rise of the sea along a shore; primarily due to the winds of a storm, especially a hurricane.
Stratocumulus A low cloud, predominantly stratiform, with low, lumpy, rounded masses, often with blue sky between them.

Storm Surge
The high and forceful dome of wind-driven waters sweeping along the coastline near where the eye makes landfall or passes close to the coast.

Storm surge A rise in sea level along a shore caused primarily by strong onshore winds and, to a lesser extent, low air pressure associated with a storm (often a hurricane); may be responsible for considerable coastal erosion and flooding.

storm surge, swash, and backwash These terms all refer to actions of ocean waters as they erode shorelines and beaches. A storm surge is produced by the wind action of large storms such as hurricanes.

Storm Surge- A rise of the sea level alone the shore that builds up as a storm (usually a hurricane) moves over water. It is a result of the winds of the storm and low atmospheric pressures.

Surge: Violent breaking of the waves in the coast, caused by rough seas.
Swell: Wave (rising and falling of the sea) caused by winds that can be at some distance or that have already stopped.

STORM SURGE: A rise above the normal water level along a shore caused by strong onshore winds and/or reduced atmospheric pressure. The surge height is the difference of the observed water level minus the predicted tide.

Storm surge
A change in water level caused by atmospheric pressure and wind. A storm surge can cause floodings, especially when it occurs at the same time as a high tide.
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STORM SURGE - A dramatic and sometimes violent increase in ocean water level due to a strong low pressure area such as a hurricane or strong winds blowing onshore along a coast. Storm surges can be 20 feet or more in height.

Dry Punch - A surge of drier air; normally a synoptic-scale or mesoscale process. A dry punch at the surface results in a dry line bulge.

Dark Surge on Disk (DSD)In solar-terrestrial terms, dark gaseous ejections visible in H-alpha.Dart LeaderA faint, negatively charged channel that travels more or less directly and continuously from cloud to ground.

Active Surge Region (ASR)In solar-terrestrial terms, an Active Region that exhibits a group or series of spike-like surges that rise above the limb.ACTVActive.

Turbulent waters surge past the Tamar Rowing Club on 7 April 1929, at an early stage of the major flood in northern and northeastern Tasmania (photo courtesy of The Mercury) ...

The Lehigh River surged over Lehigh Drive by mid-morning, and mud skidded along a steep embankment onto the drive in what one witness said looked like ''the whole mountainside coming down.

The scale categorizes potential damage based on barometric pressure wind speeds, and storm surge. See the scale. ST. ELMO'S FIRE A luminous, and often audible, electric discharge that is intermediate in nature.

While tropical cyclones can produce extremely powerful winds and torrential rain, they are also able to produce high waves and damaging storm surge. They develop over large bodies of warm water, and lose their strength if they move over land.

atmospherics"(Also called atmospheric interference, strays, sferics.) The radio frequency electromagnetic radiation originating, principally, in the irregular surges of charge in thunderstorm lightning discharges.

The surrounding arc cloud marks the edge of the cold air surge which developed when the storm collapsed. Such an arc cloud might be associated with a gust front.

Line Echo Wave Pattern (LEWP): A radar echo pattern formed when a segment of a line of thunderstorms surges forward at an accelerated rate. A meso-high pressure area is usually present behind the accelerating thunderstorms.

The damaging effects of hurricanes are the result of high, gusty winds, of very copious precipitation (continuing even after the hurricane has decayed), and of the storm surge in ocean level.

FIRST GUST Another name for the initial wind surge observed at the surface as the result of downdrafts forming the leading edge or gust front of a thunderstorm. Related term: gust front ...

At the surface of the ocean, a disturbance generated by wind action with dynamics governed by the influence of gravity and/or surface tension. See ocean waves. 3. Popularly used as a synonym for "surge" or "influx," as in tidal wave (storm surge), ...

COASTAL FLOODING - Inundation of coastal areas from waves and storm surge.
COLD CORE HIGH- A dome of cold surface high pressure that originates from the high latitudes.

Another name for the initial wind surge observed at the surface as the result of downdrafts forming the leading edge or gust front of a thunderstorm.
Related term: gust front
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Tropical cyclones are associated with extremely strong winds, torrential rain, storm surges (in coastal areas) and huge seas.

See also: Storm, Water, Weather, Cloud, Wind