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Presents updated knowledge on physics of tsunamis and recent events plus advances in tsunami models
Reflects significant progress in tsunami research, monitoring and mitigation over the last decade
Presents a profound review of the methods of tsunami monitoring
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
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 all 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.Keywords
- Tsunami Warning
- Historical Tsunami Database
- Tsunami Generation
- Co-Seismic Deformation
- Initial Elevation
- Long-Wave Theory
- Potential Theory
- Landslide
- Volcanic Eruption
- Meteotsunami
- Cosmogenic Tsunami
- Tsunami Propagation
- Tsunami Run-up
- Dispersion
- Nonlinearity
- Numerical Simulation
- Measurements of Sea Level
- Tsunami Deposits
- Satellite Altimetry
- Ionospheric Disturbances
Authors and Affiliations
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Inst. Marine Geology & Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia
Boris W. Levin
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Faculty of Physics, M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moskva, Russia
Mikhail Nosov
About the authors
Mikhail A. Nosov is a Professor of Physics of Sea and Inland Waters at the Faculty of Physics of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. He is an active participant to the EGS and EGU meetings. As co-convener and UNESCO contractor, he organized the International Workshop on "Local Tsunami Warning and Mitigation" (2002). In 2005 he was awarded Plinius Medal of European Geosciences Union. He has more than 70 scientific publications in the fields of marine physics, tsunamis, seaquakes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Physics of Tsunamis
Authors: Boris W. Levin, Mikhail Nosov
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24037-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-24035-0Published: 06 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-33106-5Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-24037-4Published: 22 October 2015
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIII, 388
Number of Illustrations: 53 b/w illustrations, 114 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Oceanography, Geophysics and Environmental Physics