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Study on the relation of river morphology and tsunami propagation in rivers

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The relations of river morphology and tsunami propagation in rivers were studied at several rivers in the Tohoku region during The Great Chilean Tsunami of 2010 and The Great East Japan Tsunami of 2011. It was found that river mouth morphological features play an important role in the intrusion of low magnitude tsunamis in which the geological and geographical conditions are an important factor. Nevertheless, the effects of these features were not found in the case of an extreme tsunami wave. As the wave enters the river, the propagation depends on other factors. It was found that the intrusion distance correlates well to the riverbed slope. The measurements of water level and riverbed slope were analyzed to propose an empirical method for estimating the damping coefficient for the tsunami propagation in rivers based on the tsunami of 2011. The proposed empirical method was used to approximate the length of the tsunami intrusion into a river by assuming that the furthest distance is given for the ratio of local tsunami wave height to the tsunami wave height at the river entrance of 0.05 (5 %). The estimated intrusion length from the proposed method in this study shows a good comparison with measurement data.

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Acknowledgements

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Tohoku district maintenance office and Miyagi Rivers Division provided the water level data and cross section in the rivers. The authors would like to thank the financial supports from Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from Japan Society for Promotion of Science (No. 2503364). This research was also funded by the Grant-in-Aid for Specific Research Project, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the River Environmental Fund (REF) in charge of the Foundation of River and Watershed Environmental Management (FOREM), and Assistance for Technological Development, Tohoku Construction Association.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-06 Aoba, Sendai, 980-8579, Japan

    Hitoshi Tanaka, Kosuke Kayane, Mohammad Bagus Adityawan & Min Roh

  2. Water Resources Engineering Research Group, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Jalan Ganesha 10, 40132, Jawa Barat, Indonesia

    Mohammad Bagus Adityawan & Mohammad Farid

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This article is part of the Topical Collection on the 7th International Conference on Coastal Dynamics in Arcachon, France 24–28 June 2013

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Tanaka, H., Kayane, K., Adityawan, M.B. et al. Study on the relation of river morphology and tsunami propagation in rivers. Ocean Dynamics 64, 1319–1332 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-014-0749-y

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