Simulations of moving effect of coastal vegetation on  tsunami damping

Tsai, Ching-Piao; Chen, Ying-Chi; Sihombing, Tri Octaviani; Lin, Chang

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-693-2017

Articles | Volume 17, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-693-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-693-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 5

Research article

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16 May 2017

Research article |

| 16 May 2017

Simulations of moving effect of coastal vegetation on tsunami damping

Ching-Piao Tsai, Ying-Chi Chen, Tri Octaviani Sihombing, and Chang Lin

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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SC1: 'RC', Maria Maza, 10 Jan 2017
- AC3: 'Response to SC1', Ching-Piao Tsai, 28 Feb 2017
RC1: 'Short Comment "RC" again as Referee Comment', Maria Maza, 11 Jan 2017
- AC1: 'Response to RC1', Ching-Piao Tsai, 28 Feb 2017
RC2: 'Interactive comment on “Simulations of Moving Effect of Coastal Vegetation on Tsunami Damping” by Ching-Piao Tsai et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Feb 2017
- AC2: 'Response to RC#2', Ching-Piao Tsai, 28 Feb 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish as is (07 Apr 2017) by Mauricio Gonzalez

AR by Ching-Piao Tsai on behalf of the Authors (15 Apr 2017)

Short summary

A huge tsunami in Southeast Asia in 2004 has stimulated a debate about the role played by coastal ecosystems in protecting coastal area. Previous approaches assumed that vegetation is stationary and neglected the plant motion with wave. This may lead to overestimation of the effectiveness of coastal vegetation on tsunami damping. We present a coupled wave–vegetation simulation and conclude that the tsunami wave height damping may be overestimated if vegetation motion with wave is neglected.