Overview
Summarizes contemporary knowledge about tsunamis and related phenomena in the ocean
Describes up-to-date models of tsunami waves from the physical point of view
Presents a profound review of the methods of tsunami monitoring
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents(7 chapters)
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
-
Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia
Boris Levin
-
Moscow State University, Russia
Mikhail Nosov
About the authors
Professor Boris W. Levin is a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Director of the Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Far East Branch of RAS, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia. He is a member of IUGG Tsunami Commission, American Geophysical Union, Seismological Society of America and National Geographic Society. He has more than 200 scientific publications in the fields of geophysics, tsunamis, seaquakes, seismology.
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 50 scientific publications in the fields of marine physics, tsunamis, seaquakes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Physics of Tsunamis
Authors: Boris Levin, Mikhail Nosov
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8856-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8007-3Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8856-8Published: 27 October 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 327
Topics: Oceanography, Fluid- and Aerodynamics, Classical and Continuum Physics, Geophysics and Environmental Physics, Marine & Freshwater Sciences