Sumatra tsunami: Lessons from modeling

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 679-705

  Arcas, Diego ^a,b   Titov, Vasily ^a,b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Altimetry data; Deep Ocean Assesment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART); Run up; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; TIDE GAGES;

ALTIMETRY DATA; TSUNAMI SOURCE MECHANISM; WAVE HEIGHT;

TSUNAMIS;

ARRIVAL TIME; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; REAL TIME; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEISMIC DATA; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; TSUNAMI; WARNING SYSTEM; WAVE HEIGHT;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 33751544787     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-006-9012-5     Document Type: Article

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