This text contains papers addressing various aspects of tsunami (tidal wave) events. Papers include field survey reports of recent tsunamis in Indonesia, Japan, Philippines and Kurils, and observational and analytical works on tsunamis in the United States and Nicaragua.

Vol. 157, 2000 spanning across disciplines and national boundaries gives cause for optimism. New participation in ACES to extend its existing synergies is welcomed. We wish to thank the scientific participants of The APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Simulation (ACES) and the contributors to this book. We express appreciation to the Australian, Chinese, Japanese and USA governments for supporting the establishment of ACES. We gratefully acknowledge funding support by the Australian government's Department of Industry, Science and Resources, The University of Queensland, Japan's Science and...

Contains 15 papers, mostly presented at the 24th International Tsunami Symposium held on 14-16 July 2009 in Novosibirsk, Russia. This title reflects the state of tsunami science, including studies of recent tsunamis, tsunami statistics and warning, and modeling tsunami runup and inundation.

Data assimilation is a novel, versatile methodology for estimating atmospheric and oceanic variables. This volume contains many original findings in data assimilation and its applications related to atmospheric, oceanic and environmental systems.

This topical issue of the Journal of Pure and Applied Geophysics focuses on research related to dew and various types of fog occurring around the globe which was presented on July 25-30, 2010, at the 5th International Conference on Fog, Fog Collection, and Dew in Munster, Germany. The areas of knowledge in this field include surface in-situ and remote sensing observations of fog, dew, fog collection, applications of the various fog models (such as 1D, 2D, and 3D fog and forecasting models), microphysical parameterizations, and climatology. This volume gives a very good review of the existing...

This book is the third of a series highlighting this topic of major importance for recent developments in geodynamics. Temporal variation of deformation and gravity fields recorded by geodetic measuring techniques (either from ground surface or space) and reflecting isostatic, tectonic or volcanic processes in the earth's interior as well as hydrologic, oceanographic or climatic processes, have made a basic tool for research and monitoring. Part of the papers collected in this topical volume were presented at the 3rd Workshop on "Deformation and Gravity Change: Indicators of Isostasy,...

Earthquake fault zones exhibit hierarchical damage and granular structures with evolving geometrical and material properties. Understanding how repeated brittle deformation form the structures and how the structures affect subsequent earthquakes is a rich problem involving coupling of various processes that operate over broad space and time scales. The diverse state-of-the-art papers collected here show how insight can come from many fields including statistical physics, structural geology and rock mechanics at large scales; elasticity, friction and nonlinear continuum mechanics at...

This book presents a series of numerical simulation studies of the earthquake generation process and the evaluation of the hazards caused by large earthquakes and tsunamis, drawn from three distinct topical areas. First, recent research results on earthquake source physics are introduced, which can be used as input for hazard evaluation studies. Then, propagation of seismic waves and tsunamis is discussed, connecting what happens at the source with the resulting damage. Finally, earthquake statistics for forecasting are discussed, a practical application of our knowledge for the mitigation of...

Table 1 Earth conductivity profiles Figure File Name Apx. Depth Remarks References 1. Global Models 1939-69 LAPR39 0--1250 global Sq, Dst LAHIRI and PRICE, 1939; PRICE, 1973 RIKI50 0--1400 misc. data sources RIKITAKE. 1950; 1966 MCD057 0--2900 LAPR39 + secular change McDoNALD, 1957 CANT60 100--600 see ECKHARDT et a!. , 1963 CANTWELL, 1960 YUKU65 380--1900 ring current YUKUTAKE, 1965 BANK69 0--1700 ring current BANKS, 1969; 1972 2. Global Models 1970--74 BFRS70 100--700 Sq, Dst 27-d variations BERDICHEVSKY et a!. , 1970; 1973 PRKR70 0--3200 rework BANKS, 1969, data PARKER, 1970 SCJA72 0--1000...