Japan's 2011 Tsunami: Characteristics of Wave Propagation from Observations and Numerical Modelling

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 170, Issue 6-8, 2013, Pages 1295-1307

  Fine, Isaac V ^a   Kulikov, Evgueni A ^b   Cherniawsky, Josef Y ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

altimetry; equipartition law; numerical model; Tsunami; wave energy; wave scattering

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; MARINE APPLICATIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITES; SEISMOLOGY; TSUNAMIS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ALTIMETRY; CABLED OBSERVATORIES; EQUIPARTITION; FINITE FAULT MODELING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE SCATTERING;

NUMERICAL MODELS;

NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TSUNAMI; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE SCATTERING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84877311500     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-012-0555-8     Document Type: Article

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