Propagation and inundation characteristics of the 2011 Tohoku tsunami on the central Sanriku coast

Coastal Engineering Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Shimozono, Takenori ^a   Sato, Shinji ^b   Okayasu, Akio ^a   Tajima, Yoshimistu ^b   Fritz, Hermann M ^c   Liu, Haijiang ^b   Takagawa, Tomohiro ^d  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d PORT AND AIRPORT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

2011 Tohoku tsunami; field survey; Sanriku coast; simulation; topographic amplification

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; SURVEYS;

FIELD SURVEYS; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; PROGRESSIVE WAVES; SIMULATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STANDING WAVE MODES; TOPOGRAPHIC AMPLIFICATION; TOPOGRAPHIC SLOPE;

TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84859319244     PISSN: 21664250     EISSN: 17936292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0578563412500040     Document Type: Article

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