Overview
- Presents unique field observations of tsunamis in rivers
- Focuses on tsunami dynamics in river channels and conditions of tsunami’s upriver propagation, as implied by the field evidence
- Analyses first-ever measurements of a train of shock waves on its upriver journey
- Describes and investigates tide-tsunami interaction and tsunami wave set-up found in the observations
- Introduces a new theoretical approach to explaining and/or predicting tsunami and tidal dynamics in rivers
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences (BRIEFSEARTH)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Using observations of the 2011-Tohoku and some other tsunamis in rivers as a starting point for analytical and numerical exploration, this book suggests a basis for predicting tsunami impacts in a river after the wave has transitioned into the river’s channel.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Elena Tolkova graduated from the Radiophysics department of the Nizhny Novgorod State University in Russia in 1985, and stayed with the University for 15 years after graduation -- first as a research associate/engineer, then as an assistant/associate professor -- while performing contract research, writing her dissertation, and teaching general physics, optics, and signal processing. Elena resumed her scientific career in the US in 2005, in the field of hydrodynamics. Elena worked as a research scientist at the University of Washington and a contractor at NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, helping to develop and implement a particular tsunami forecasting technology. In 2013, she continued her research at the NorthWest Research Associates, where she has developed an open-source numerical model (Cliffs) for simulating tsunami propagation and land inundation, co-authored a novel approach to using tsunami’s en-route measurements for tsunami predictions, and in collaboration with Prof. H. Tanaka and his team at Tohoku University, Japan, investigated some puzzling tsunami behaviors in rivers.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tsunami Propagation in Tidal Rivers
Authors: Elena Tolkova
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73287-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73286-2Published: 19 January 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73287-9Published: 10 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2191-5369
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5377
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 123
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Coastal Sciences, Geophysics/Geodesy, Geophysics and Environmental Physics