Modeling Coastal Environmental Change and the Tsunami Hazard

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Robert Weiss, Tina Dura, Jennifer L. Irish
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
• Subjects: coastal systems response; tsunami; modeling; climate-change impacts; Monte Carlo; Science; Q; General. Including nature conservation; geographical distribution; QH1-199.5; Antarctic; Barrier Island; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.871794; https://doaj.org/article/dcb30719e040486cbb8645be6fce33a6

The hazard from earthquake-generated tsunami waves is not only determined by the earthquake’s magnitude and mechanisms, and distance to the earthquake area, but also by the geomorphology of the nearshore and onshore areas, which can change over time. In coastal hazard assessments, a changing coastal...