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PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS
Volume 177, Issue 3, Pages 1659-1674Publisher
SPRINGER BASEL AG
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-019-02316-y
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Shoaling; tsunamis; Green's Law; reflection; transmission; continental shelf
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
- Science and Technology Corporation (STC) under NASA as part of the Asteroid Threat Assessment Project (ATAP) [NNA10DF26C]
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The propagation of long waves onto a continental shelf is of great interest in tsunami modeling and other applications where understanding the amplification of waves during shoaling is important. When the linearized shallow water equations are solved with the continental shelf modeled as a sharp discontinuity, the ratio of the amplitudes is given by the transmission coefficient. On the other hand, when the slope is very broad relative to the wavelength of the incoming wave, then amplification is governed by Green's Law, which predicts a larger amplification than the transmission coefficient, and a much smaller amplitude reflection than given by the reflection coefficient of a sharp interface. We explore the relation between these results and elucidate the behavior in the intermediate case of a very steep continental shelf.
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