Coral reefs reduce tsunami impact in model simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 2006, Pages

  Kunkel, Catherine M ^a   Hallberg, Robert W ^b   Oppenheimer, Michael ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUTRIENTS; SEDIMENTATION; TOPOGRAPHY; TSUNAMIS;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; CORAL REEFS;

REEFS;

AMPLITUDE; CORAL REEF; INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI 2004; SHALLOW WATER; TOPOGRAPHY; TSUNAMI; VOLCANIC ISLAND; WAVELENGTH;

INDIAN OCEAN;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 34548616921     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027892     Document Type: Article

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