Effects of fringing reefs on tsunami inundation: American Samoa

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 12-22

  Gelfenbaum, Guy ^a   Apotsos, Alex ^a   Stevens, Andrew W ^a   Jaffe, Bruce ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral reefs; Tsunami inundation; Tsunami runup

Indexed keywords

COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; CORAL REEF; FRINGING REEF; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHALLOW WATER; SHOALING WAVE; TSUNAMI; WATER DEPTH; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE RUNUP;

AMERICAN SAMOA; TUTUILA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 79958849110     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.12.005     Document Type: Review

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