Runup characteristics of symmetrical solitary tsunami waves of "unknown" shapes

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 165, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 2249-2264

  Didenkulova, Ira ^a,b   Pelinovsky, Efim ^a   Soomere, Tarmo ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Long wave runup; Nonlinear shallow water theory; Tsunamis

Indexed keywords

BREAKING WAVE; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; SOLITARY WAVE; TSUNAMI; WARNING SYSTEM; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 59549102135     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-008-0425-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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