Short Wave Amplification and Extreme Runup by the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 171, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3217-3228

  Shimozono, Takenori ^a   Cui, Haiyang ^b   Pietrzak, Julie D ^b   Fritz, Hermann M ^c   Okayasu, Akio ^d   Hooper, Andrew J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

amplification; runup; Sanriku coast; topography; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SEA LEVEL; TOPOGRAPHY; TSUNAMIS;

AMPLIFICATION MECHANISM; DIFFERENT BOUNDARY CONDITION; DOMINANT PERIODS; NUMERICAL TESTS; RUN-UP HEIGHTS; RUNUP; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS;

AMPLIFICATION;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BUOY SYSTEM; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TSUNAMI; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE MODELING; WAVE RUNUP;

HONSHU; IWATE; JAPAN; SANRIKU; TOHOKU;

EID: 84919337983     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-014-0803-1     Document Type: Article

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