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Differentiate Storm Surges and Seiches.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Climatology

A storm surge is an abnormal rise of sea level, over and above the predicted astronomical tide, produced by the strong onshore winds and very low pressure of a storm — above all a tropical cyclone — against an open coast.

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