Physics of Tsunamis
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Beschreibung
This second edition reflects significant progress in tsunami research, monitoring and mitigation within the last decade. Primarily meant to summarize the state-of-the-art knowledge on physics of tsunamis, it describes up-to-date models of tsunamis generated by a submarine earthquake, landslide, volcanic eruption, meteorite impact, and moving atmospheric pressure inhomogeneities. Models of tsunami propagation and run-up are also discussed. The book investigates methods of tsunami monitoring including coastal mareographs, deep-water pressure gauges, GPS buoys, satellite altimetry, the study of ionospheric disturbances caused by tsunamis and the study of paleotsunamis. Non-linear phenomena in tsunami source and manifestations of water compressibility are discussed in the context of their contribution to the wave amplitude and energy. The practical method of calculating the initial elevation on a water surface at a seismotectonic tsunami source is expounded. Potential and eddy traces ofa tsunamigenic earthquake in the ocean are examined in terms of their applicability to tsunami warning.
The first edition of this book was published in 2009. Since then, a few catastrophic events occurred, including the 2011 Tohoku tsunami, which is well known all over the world.
The book is intended for researchers, students and specialists in oceanography, geophysics, seismology, hydro-acoustics, geology, and geomorphology, including the engineering and insurance industries.Presents updated knowledge on physics of tsunamis and recent events plus advances in tsunami models
Reflects significant progress in tsunami research, monitoring and mitigation over the last decade
Presents a profound review of the methods of tsunami monitoring
Presents updated knowledge on physics of tsunamis and recent events plus advances in tsunami models Reflects significant progress in tsunami research, monitoring and mitigation over the last decade Presents a profound review of the methods of tsunami monitoring Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
Boris W. Levin
Themen in »Physics of Tsunamis«
Tsunami Warning Historical Tsunami Database Tsunami Generation Co-Seismic Deformation Initial Elevation Long-Wave Theory Potential Theory Landslide Volcanic Eruption Meteotsunami Cosmogenic Tsunami Tsunami Propagation Tsunami Run-up Dispersion Nonlinearity