Physics of Tsunamis

• Main Authors: Levin, Boris W. (Author), Nosov, Mikhail (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Oceanography.; Natural disasters.; Geophysics.; Earth Sciences.; Natural Hazards.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.

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, volc...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Preface to the 2-end edition
• General Information on Tsunami Waves, Seaquakes and Other Catastrophic Phenomena in the Ocean
• Physical Processes at the Source of a Tsunami of Seismotectonic Origin Source of a Tsunami of Seismotectonic Origin
• Hydrodynamic Processes at the Source of a Tsunami of Seismotectonic Origin: Incompressible Ocean Role of the Compressibility of Water and of Nonlinear Effects in the Formation of Tsunami Waves
• Role of the Compressibility of Water and of Nonlinear Effects in the Formation of Tsunami Waves
• The Physics of Tsunami Formation by Sources of Nonseismic Origin
• Propagation of a Tsunami in the Ocean and its Interaction with the Coast
• Methods of Tsunami Wave Registration.