Behavior of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami and resultant damage in Tokyo bay

Coastal Engineering Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Sasaki, Jun ^a   Ito, Kazunori ^b   Suzuki, Takayuki ^a   Wiyono, Retno Utami Agung ^a   Oda, Yukinobu ^b   Takayama, Yuriko ^b   Yokota, Kanako ^b   Furuta, Atsushi ^b   Takagi, Hiroshi ^c  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TAISEI CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Delft3D Flow; field survey; FVCOM; numerical hindcasting; Tsunami disaster; tsunami wave profile

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; EARTHQUAKES; FISHERIES; PORTS AND HARBORS; SEAWEED; SURVEYS;

DELFT3D FLOWS; FIELD SURVEYS; FVCOM; HINDCASTING; TSUNAMI DISASTER; TSUNAMI WAVES;

TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84859373005     PISSN: 21664250     EISSN: 17936292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S057856341250012X     Document Type: Article

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