Tsunami speed variations in density-stratified compressible global oceans

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 4001-4006

  Watada, Shingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

compressible ocean; propagator method; stratified ocean; tsunami speed; tsunami traveltime delay; World Ocean Atlas

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBLE OCEAN; PROPAGATOR METHOD; STRATIFIED OCEAN; TRAVEL-TIME; WORLD OCEAN;

ELASTICITY; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER EFFECTS; SPEED; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

TSUNAMIS;

COMPRESSIBILITY; DEEP SEA; ELASTIC WAVE; ELASTICITY; GLOBAL OCEAN; HYDROSTATICS; SEAWATER; SOUND VELOCITY; STRATIFICATION; TRAVEL TIME; TSUNAMI;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84881267316     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50785     Document Type: Article

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