Energy Decay of the 2004 Sumatra Tsunami in the World Ocean

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 168, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1919-1950

  Rabinovich, Alexander B ^a,b   Candella, Rogério N ^c   Thomson, Richard E ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c Instituto de Estudos do Mar Almirante Paulo Moreira IEAPM   (Brazil)

Author keywords

2004 Sumatra tsunami; maximum wave heights; tide gauge data; tsunami decay time; tsunami energy index; tsunami travel time

Indexed keywords

2004 SUMATRA TSUNAMI; ABSORPTION CHARACTERISTICS; DECAY TIME; E-FOLDING; ENERGY DECAY; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI; MAXIMUM WAVE HEIGHT; NORTH PACIFIC; OCEANIC BASIN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOURCE REGION; SUMATRA; TIDE GAUGE DATA; TIDE GAUGES; TSUNAMI WAVES; WORLD OCEAN;

DECAY (ORGANIC); OCEANOGRAPHY; TIDE GAGES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

TSUNAMIS;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; FOLDING; OCEAN BASIN; TIDE GAUGE; TRAVEL TIME; TSUNAMI EVENT; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE HEIGHT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 80955125616     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-011-0279-1     Document Type: Article

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