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Resurgence
A general class of phenomena where, after a storm surge, the water level falls, rises, falls again, rises again, and so on for many hours after the passage of a hurricane. This has been variously explained as being due to oscillating long waves, edge waves, Kelvin waves or some combination thereof.
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