Dispersive modeling of the 2009 Samoa tsunami

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Zhou, Hongqiang ^a,b   Wei, Yong ^a,b   Titov, Vasily V ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TSUNAMIS;

BOUSSINESQ MODEL; DISPERSIVE EFFECTS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FREQUENCY DISPERSION; NUMERICAL DISPERSIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPERATIONAL RESOLUTION; PHYSICAL DISPERSION; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; TRAILING WAVES; WATER SURFACE ELEVATIONS; WAVE HEIGHTS;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

BATHYMETRY; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; EARTHQUAKE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; TRENCH; TSUNAMI EVENT; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; TONGA TRENCH;

EID: 84865651995     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053068     Document Type: Article

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