Sea, Volume 15: Tsunamis Ideas and Observations on Progress in the Study of the Seas

Informationen zum Autor Eddie N. Bernard is Scientist Emeritus and former Director of the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington, and Vice President for Research at Survival Capsule, LLC. Recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in tsunami science and mitigation, he has directed the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, founded the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program, provided technical review of the 2006 Tsunami Education and Warning Act, and published over 80 technical and scientific articles on tsunamis. Allan R. Robinson was Gordon McKay Professor of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Recognized as a pioneer and leading expert in modern interdisciplinary ocean dynamics and ocean prediction, he contributed significantly to the techniques for the assimilation of multiscale data into ocean forecasting models and chairs the IOC/UNESCO COASTS program. Zusammenfassung The world’s foremost experts write about the dynamics of geophysical processes involved in tsunami generation, propagation, and inundation, along with the statistical and geophysical properties of tsunami recurrence, and their application to tsunami forecasts and warnings.

Product details

• Assisted by: Eddie N. Bernard (Editor), Allan R. Robinson (Editor), Bernard Eddie N. (Editor), Robinson Allan R. (Editor)
• Authors: Eddie N. Robinson Bernard, Eddie N. Bernard
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.01.2009
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780674031739
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03173-9
• Pages: 462
• Series: The Sea: Ideas and Observations on Progress in the Study of the Seas; Sea: Ideas and Observations on > 15; The Sea: Ideas and Observations on Progress in the Study of the Seas; The Sea
• Subjects: SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Oceanography; Oceanography (seas and oceans); Oceanography (seas)