Disaster Prevention for Tsunami, Storm Surge and Storm Waves
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2022) | Viewed by 2999
Special Issue Editors
Interests: coastal wave transformation; harbor oscillation; storm surge mitigation; removable breakwater; beach nourishment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The risk of inundation in coastal and harbor area is increasing mainly because of global climate change and partially because of concentration of population and social stock to waterfront. The hazard due to tsunamis, storm surge, and stormy waves causes the heavy destruction of urban operations. Disaster prevention in coastal zones should be discussed more severely to establish more practical damage reduction systems, early evacuation support tools, and structures with resiliency.
This Special Issue invites papers discussing the development and improvement of hard-ware-like breakwaters to mitigate hazards due to tsunamis, storm surge, and stormy waves. Application to global climate change is included in this category. The implementation of hardware is also useful to delay the tsunami arrival time. Warning systems to support early evacuation are in the software category, and several new systems should be introduced in the Special Issue.
The aim of the Special Issue is to emphasize on the combination of hard- and software to reduce the risk of inundation and destruction in coastal urban areas by tsunamis, storm surge, and stormy waves, which is extremely topical due to the necessary effort to protect human lives and social properties in waterfronts.
Prof. Dr. Tetsuya Hiraishi
Dr. Che-Wei Chang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tsunami
- storm surge
- stormy waves
- hardware disaster prevention
- software disaster prevention
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