Tsunami waves generated by submarine landslides of variable volume: Analytical solutions for a basin of variable depth

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2407-2419

  Didenkulova, I ^a,b   Nikolkina, I ^b,c   Pelinovsky, E ^b,c   Zahibo, N ^c  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE GUYANE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; BASIN ANALYSIS; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; TSUNAMI; WAVE FIELD; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 78649758271     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-10-2407-2010     Document Type: Article

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