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...