The 2004 December 26 Indian Ocean tsunami impact on Sri Lanka: Cascade modelling from ocean to city scales

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1080-1090

  Poisson, B ^a   Garcin, M ^a   Pedreros, R ^a  

^a BRGM   (France)

Author keywords

Indian Ocean; Tsunamis

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; ARRIVAL TIME; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI 2004; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STORM DAMAGE; WAVE DIFFRACTION; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ASIA; COLOMBO; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA; WESTERN PROVINCE [SRI LANKA];

EID: 66549093843     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04106.x     Document Type: Article

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