The catastrophic eruption of the Hunga Tonga — Hunga Ha’apai volcano in 2022 triggered a special atmospheric wave that has eluded detection for the past 85 years. Researchers relied on state-of-the-art observational data and computer simulations to discover the existence of Pekeris waves — fluctuations in air pressure that were theorized in 1937 but never proven to occur in nature, until now.
