Predicting Wave-Induced Flooding on Low-Lying Tropical Islands Using a Bayesian Network

Low-lying tropical islands are highly vulnerable to the effects of sea-level rise and climate change. Most pressing is the threat posed to their fresh water supplies by wave-induced flooding. This thesis attempts to generalize previous site-specific studies of flooding on coral atolls and apply it in a framework that can be used for early...

Non-hydrostatic modelling of large scale tsunamis

The Indian Ocean Tsunami has once again revived the discussion in the tsunami modelling community if the non-linear shallow water equations are a valid model for the propagation of tsunamis. It is suggested that the mechanism of frequency dispersion which is absent in these equations might be important in the correct modelling of large scale...