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The 1883 Krakatau volcanic eruption has generated giant tsunami waves reached heights of 40 m above sea level. Sea level oscillations related with this event have been reported in the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Main goal of this study is to analyze all available tide-gauge records (35) of this event. They are digitized with time step 2 min and processed. First of all, the tidal components are calculated and eliminated from the records. Filtered tide-gauge records are used to re-determine the observed tsunami characteristics (positive and negative amplitudes, wave heights). The results of given analysis are compared with the results of the direct numerical simulation of the tsunami wave propagation in the framework of the linear shallow-water theory using the ETOPO2 bathymetry.
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Pelinovsky, E., Choi, B.H., Stromkov, A., Didenkulova, I., Kim, HS. (2005). Analysis of Tide-Gauge Records of the 1883 Krakatau Tsunami. In: Satake, K. (eds) Tsunamis. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3331-1_4
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