Scattering of linear long-wave tsunamis due to randomly fluctuating sea-bottom topography: Coda excitation and scattering attenuation

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 958-965

  Saito, Tatsuhiko ^a,b   Furumura, Takashi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fractals and multifractals; Tsunamis; Waves cattering and diffraction

Indexed keywords

BORN APPROXIMATION; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; CODA; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; TSUNAMI; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVE DIFFRACTION; WAVE EQUATION; WAVE SCATTERING; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 66649128520     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.03988.x     Document Type: Article

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