Tsunami Propagation in Tidal Rivers

• Main Author: Tolkova, Elena (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences,
• Subjects: Natural disasters.; Coasts.; Geophysics.; Natural Hazards.; Coastal Sciences.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.

Using observations of the 2011-Tohoku and some other tsunamis in rivers as a starting point for analytical and numerical exploration, this book suggests a basis for predicting tsunami impacts in a river after the wave has transitioned into the river's channel.  .

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Observations of tsunamis in rivers
• Chapter 2. First analytical chapter: long wave set-up
• Chapter 3. Like tsunamis, tides make rivers deeper
• Chapter 4. Tsunami and tidal set-up in rivers: a numerical study
• Chapter 5. Second analytical chapter: ascending with the wave
• Chapter 6. Tsunami rides tides
• Chapter 7. Tsunami Bores.