Los niveles del mar a lo largo de la Costa Oeste comenzarán a subir hasta 30 centímetros este mes. Expertos pronostican que las ondas seguirán pasando desde octubre hasta febrero.
Kelvin waves are not like tsunamis, and they don't curl over and crash on the beach. A better image is water sloshing in the bathtub or a swimming pool during an earthquake. In the ocean, they are bulges of water that lift the sea level as they move along the coast.
Sea levels along the West Coast will begin to rise by up to a foot this month as a series of pulses of warm water called Kelvin waves hit the shoreline and move north, sparking concerns about beach erosion and flooding in areas already impacted by climate change and El Nino.
Non è uno tsunami, ma un innalzamento dei mari, effetto di un'anomalia di temperatura del Pacifico. Coste a rischio inondazioni: è corsa alla costruzione di argini di sabbia: la California si blinda per l’autunno
Une hausse temporaire du niveau marin peut-elle menacer les côtes californiennes ? Xavier Fettweis explique comment une onde de Kelvin, associée à El Niño, peut aggraver les risques de submersion lorsqu’elle se conjugue à une marée haute et à une tempête.
Wave nearing southern California expected to reach San Francisco Bay Area by October as it crawls toward Alaska Communities across California are rushing to prepare for the imminent arrival of the so-called “Kelvin wave”, a massive underwater band of warm water threatening to inundate swaths of the…
