TY - GEN digital ID - 131562252 TI - Physics of Tsunamis AU - Levin, Boris W. AU - Nosov, Mikhail A. PY - 2016 SN - 9783319240374 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing DB - UniCat KW - Geophysics KW - Hydrosphere KW - Meteorology. Climatology KW - Geology. Earth sciences KW - akoestiek KW - tsunami KW - geografie KW - geologie KW - aarde (astronomie) KW - geofysica KW - natuurrampen KW - oceanografie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131562252 AB - 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 of a 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 allĀ 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. ER -