storm tide
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See also: stormtide
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storm tide (plural storm tides)
- A rise in local sea level caused by the combination of regular tides and a storm surge.
- Monthly weather review, U.S. Army Signal Corps, 1920
- At 8pm of the 27th there was 1.0 ft of storm tide at both Pensacola and Port Eads.
- South Florida and Louisiana, August 23-26, 1992: Natural Disaster Survey -- Jennifer J. Wilson, James P. Travers, 1997 →ISBN
- Storm surge is water height above normal tide level. Storm tide is the water height relative to NGVD, the mean sea level of 1929.
- All About Camille -- the Great Storm, Dan Ellis, 2000 →ISBN
- The advancing storm surge combines with the normal astronomical tide to create the storm tide.
- Extreme events: a physical reconstruction and risk assessment, Jonathan Nott 2006 →ISBN
- Randomly selected cyclones are then run through a numerical storm tide model.
- Monthly weather review, U.S. Army Signal Corps, 1920