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Run-Up of a Solitary Tsunami Wave on a Sloping Coast

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Within the framework of the nonlinear theory of long waves, we perform the numerical analysis of the one-dimensional run-up of solitary tsunami waves upon a plane sloping coast. We study the dependences of the run-up heights on the parameters of waves at the entrance of the shelf zone and on the slope of the coast. The run-up heights of tsunami waves are estimated for the bottom topography typical of the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula.

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Translated from Morskoi Gidrofizicheskii Zhurnal, No. 4, pp. 11–18, July–August, 2005.

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Dotsenko, S.F. Run-Up of a Solitary Tsunami Wave on a Sloping Coast. Phys Oceanogr 15, 211–219 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11110-005-0043-0

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