Flow speed estimated by inverse modeling of sandy tsunami deposits: Results from the 11 March 2011 tsunami on the coastal plain near the Sendai Airport, Honshu, Japan

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 282, Issue , 2012, Pages 90-109

  Jaffe, Bruce E ^a   Goto, Kazuhisa ^b,c   Sugawara, Daisuke ^c   Richmond, Bruce M ^a   Fujino, Shige ^d   Nishimura, Yuichi ^e  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Grading; Inverse model; Japan; Sediment transport; Suspension; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

BULK GRAINS; COASTAL PLAIN; DOWNSLOPE; FLOW SPEED; INVERSE APPROACH; INVERSE MODELING; INVERSE MODELS; JAPAN; MANNING'S N; ONSHORE FLOW; SAND DUNES; SANDY DEPOSITS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT MODEL; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; TSUNAMI DEPOSITS; TSUNAMI FLOW; TSUNAMI HAZARDS; VERTICAL RESOLUTION;

DEPOSITS; ESTIMATION; GRADING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TSUNAMIS;

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

COASTAL PLAIN; DUNE; GRAIN SIZE; INVERSE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TSUNAMI EVENT;

HONSHU; JAPAN;

EID: 84870416776     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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