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    • Factores que influyen en la forma de la cola de un tsunami 

      Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia (UNICIENCIA Vol. 23 65-69, 2009)
      The propagation speed of a tsunami depends on the depth of the ocean in which it propagates. As the tsunami crosses the abyssal plain, it suffers modifications in its form due to change in the depths of the ocean bottom. ...
    • Rotating magnetic shallow water waves and instabilities in a sphere 

      Márquez-Artavia, Xiomara; Jones, Christopher; Tobias, Steven (University of Leeds, United Kingdom, 2017)
      Waves in a thin layer on a rotating sphere are studied. The effect of a toroidal magnetic field is considered, using the shallow water ideal MHD equations. The work is motivated by suggestions that there is a stably ...
    • The rip current hazard in Costa Rica 

      Arozarena, Isabel; Houser, Chris; Gutiérrez-Echeverría, Alejandro; Brannstrom, Christian (2015-01-31)
      Deaths from rip currents are a major hazard on global beaches, but few data are available at a national scale to support the development of appropriate intervention programs. Analysis of data from the Judicial Investigation ...