The open ocean energy decay of three recent trans-Pacific tsunamis

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3157-3162

  Rabinovich, Alexander B ^a,b   Candella, Rogério N ^c   Thomson, Richard E ^b  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c Instituto de Estudos do Mar Almirante Paulo Moreira   (Brazil)

Author keywords

2009 Samoa tsunami; 2010 Chile tsunami; 2011 Tohoku tsunami; energy decay; Pacific Ocean

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DECAY; FREQUENCY CONTENTS; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT ANALYSIS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH RESOLUTION; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOURCE PARAMETERS; WAVE PROPERTIES;

DECAY (ORGANIC); EARTHQUAKES; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

TSUNAMIS;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CHILE EARTHQUAKE 2010; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; OPEN OCEAN; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84880526443     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50625     Document Type: Article

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