  Short-term sea level fluctuations prompted by abrupt atmospheric changes can
be hazardous phenomena for coastal regions. We report on two such recent storm
surges that occurred in 2020 on the shores of British Columbia, Canada. A rare
concordance of ground-based and spaceborne sensors made it possible to observe
these events with a variety of instruments : (1) a coastal oceanographic radar;
(2) the synthetic aperture radar onboard satellite Sentinel-1B; and (3) a
network of shoreside tide gauges. In the light of these case studies we show
how satellite-based radar data can be used to complement the observation and
interpretation of ground-based measurements in the context of ``tsunami-like''
sea level oscillations.
