Coastal forest effects on tsunami run-up heights

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 313-320

  Irtem, Emel ^a   Gedik, Nuray ^a   Kabdasli, M Sedat ^b   Yasa, Nilay E ^b  

^a BALIKESIR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Artificial trees; Coastal forest model; Experiment; Run up height; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; EXPERIMENTS; LANDFORMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER LEVELS;

ARTIFICIAL TREES; COASTAL FOREST MODEL; EXPERIMENT; RUN-UP HEIGHT; TSUNAMI;

TSUNAMIS;

COASTAL ZONE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST; MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TSUNAMI; WAVE HEIGHT;

EID: 60449111610     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2008.11.007     Document Type: Review

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