Observations of extreme wave runup events on the US Pacific Northwest coast

Li, Chuan; Özkan-Haller, H. Tuba; García Medina, Gabriel; Holman, Robert A.; Ruggiero, Peter; Jensen, Treena M.; Elson, David B.; Schneider, William R.

doi:10.5194/nhess-23-107-2023

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Observations of extreme wave runup events on the US Pacific Northwest coast

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2023
By Li, Chuan ; Özkan-Haller, H. Tuba ; García Medina, Gabriel ; ...

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Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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Li, Chuan ; Özkan-Haller, H. Tuba ; García Medina, Gabriel ; Holman, Robert A. ; Ruggiero, Peter ; Jensen, Treena M. ; Elson, David B. ; Schneider, William R.
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Extreme, tsunami-like wave runup events in the absence of earthquakes or landslides have been attributed to trapped waves over shallow bathymetry, long waves created by atmospheric disturbances, and long waves generated by abrupt breaking. These runup events are associated with inland excursions of hundreds of meters and periods of minutes. While the theory of radiation stress implies that nearshore energy transfer from the carrier waves to the infragravity waves can also lead to very large runup, there have not been observations of runup events induced by this process with magnitudes and periods comparable to the other three mechanisms. This work presents observations of several runup events in the US Pacific Northwest that are comparable to extreme runup events related to the other three mechanisms. It also discusses possible generation mechanisms and shows that energy transfer from carrier waves to bound infragravity waves is a plausible generation mechanism. In addition, a method to predict and forecast extreme runup events with similar characteristics is presented.
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General Earth and Planetary Sciences
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Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 23(1), 107-126
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-107-2023
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1684-9981
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