Tsunami damage reduction performance of a mangrove forest in Banda Aceh, Indonesia inferred from field data and a numerical model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Yanagisawa, H ^a   Koshimura, S ^b   Miyag, T ^c   Imamura, F ^b  

^a Tokyo Electric Power Services Co   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

BANDA ACEH , INDONESIA; COASTAL COMMUNITIES; DAMAGE PROBABILITY; DAMAGE REDUCTION; FIELD DATA; FIELD SURVEYS; FRAGILITY FUNCTION; HYDRODYNAMIC FORCES; INCIDENT WAVES; INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI; MANGROVE FOREST; MANGROVE TREE; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODELS; PROTECTIVE FUNCTION; REDUCTION CAPACITY; TSUNAMI DISASTER; TSUNAMI INUNDATION; WAVE PERIOD; WIDE AREA;

TSUNAMIS;

COASTAL PROTECTION; COASTAL ZONE; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FIELD SURVEY; HYDRODYNAMIC FORCE; INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI 2004; MANGROVE; NATURAL DISASTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY;

ACEH; BANDA ACEH; INDONESIA;

EID: 77954484980     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005587     Document Type: Article

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