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Part of the book series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research ((NTHR,volume 35))

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The recent catastrophic tsunamis show that it is now more than ever necessary to assess tsunami hazard for all coastal communities. In fact, facing the dangerous increase of population in low-lying coastal areas during the last decades directly linked to the reduction of the natural defences against sea assaults, including tsunamis, and considering the economy of most of the concerned countries, solutions should be found quickly to protect those populations and/or mitigate the hazard. In that way, recent studies and post-event field observations have highlighted the protective role played by coral reefs and the consequences of their destructions on the tsunami amplitudes. In this study previous results about the effect of fringing coral reef geometry on the tsunami amplitude are discussed using numerical modeling of nonlinear shallow water equations (NAMI-DANCE code). For this purpose, a set of different artificial Digital Elevation Models has been prepared in agreement with real bathymetric profiles and results of simulations are compared and discussed together with the conclusions obtained by the other authors.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Ahmet Yalciner (METU, Turkey) for sharing NAMI-DANCE software. They also thank anonymous referees for constructive comments.

This work has been funded by the European INTERREG IV TSUNAHOULE Project which aims at determining tsunami and waves hazard principally for the French Caribbean Islands and neighboring islands.

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    Jean Roger, Bernard Dudon, Yann Krien & Narcisse Zahibo

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Roger, J., Dudon, B., Krien, Y., Zahibo, N. (2014). Discussion About Tsunami Interaction with Fringing Coral Reef. In: Kontar, Y., Santiago-Fandiño, V., Takahashi, T. (eds) Tsunami Events and Lessons Learned. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7269-4_8

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