Estimating the height of a tsunami wave propagating over a parabolic bottom in the ray approximation |
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Authors: | An G Marchuk |
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Institution: | 1.Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Siberian Branch,Russian Academy of Sciences,Novosibirsk,Russia |
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Abstract: | In this paper, the kinematics of tsunami wave rays and wavefronts propagating over an uneven bottom is considered. Formulas to determine the wave height along a ray tube are obtained. An exact analytical solution for the trajectory of a wave ray over a parabolic bottom is derived. In the wave-ray approximation, this solution makes it possible to analytically determine the heights of tsunami waves over an area with a sloping bottom. The distribution of wave-height maxima over an area with a parabolic bottom is compared with that obtained by numerical computation with a shallow-water model. |
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