A possible mechanism of destruction of coastal trees by tsunamis : a hydrodynamic study on effects of coastal steep hills
In this paper, experimental and numerical studies are presented to understand why some trees close to the shoreline survived the 25 October 2010 Mentawai tsunami, while trees further inland before a steep coastal hill were all destroyed. A set of experiments were performed in a wave flume to measure...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96843 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11656 |