Tsunami science before and beyond Boxing Day 2004

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1845, 2006, Pages 2231-2265

  Synolakis, Costas E ^a,b   Bernard, Eddie N ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamics; Inundation; Run up; Tsunameter; Tsunami forecasting; Tsunamis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748112933     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1824     Document Type: Review

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