Landslide tsunami case studies using a Boussinesq model and a fully nonlinear tsunami generation model

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 391-402

  Watts, P ^a   Grilli, S T ^b   Kirby, J T ^c   Fryer, G J ^d   Tappin, D R ^e  

^a Applied Fluids Engineering Inc   (United States)

^b University of Rhode Island   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; LANDSLIDE; TRIGGER MECHANISM; TSUNAMI;

EID: 1642395867     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-3-391-2003     Document Type: Article

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