Extreme Wave Runup on a Steep Coastal Profile
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
2020-10-05 v1 Fluid Dynamics
Abstract
It is shown that very steep coastal profiles can give rise to unexpectedly large wave events at the coast. We combine insight from exact solutions of a simplified mathematical model with photographs from observations at the Norwegian coast near the city of Haugesund. The results suggest that even under moderate wave conditions, very large run-up can occur at the shore.
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@article{arxiv.2010.01100,
title = {Extreme Wave Runup on a Steep Coastal Profile},
author = {Maria Bjørnestad and Henrik Kalisch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.01100},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
7 pages, 6 figures, submitted to AIP Advances