[Paddlewise] Storm Surges

While Websearching for tsunami info, found this piece on storm surges:
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF5/502.html

Here's an excerpt:

A just-completed study [as of 1981] of Alaskan storm surges, conducted by
James L. Wise, Albert L. Comiskey and Richard Becker, Jr. of the University of
Alaska's Arctic Environmental Information and Data Center, shows that positive
storm surges up to 13 feet in height have occurred during the past four
decades. This study, funded by the Alaskan Council on Science and Technology,
has resulted in a predictive scheme that can be used to reduce losses caused
by future storm surges. Loss can be minimized by knowing which coastal regions
are most susceptible to storm surge flooding, and by being able to use weather
observations to give a few hour's warning of impending surges.

-- 
Dave Kruger
Astoria, OR
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