Contact Information
Institute of Marine Science118 O'Neill
P.O. Box 757220
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7220
Phone: (907) 474-7753
Fax: (907) 474-7204
ffzk@ims.uaf.edu
Zygmunt Kowalik Professor
Specialties
- numerical modeling
- tides in the Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, and Okhotsk Sea
- storm surges and currents in the Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Bering Sea, and North Pacific
- Tsunamis in the North Pacific
Data
- Investigation of the ice-tide interaction in the Arctic Ocean
- Trapped motion around the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea
- Tides in the Sea of Okhotsk
Links
Course outlines
- Tsunami Waves: Their Calculation and Physics (Summer 2009) [12KB PDF]
- Tides--their Nature and Impacts (MSL F693H) [313 KB PDF]
- Numerical Modeling of Ocean Dynamics (MSL 629) [288 KB PDF]
Workbook on numerical modeling
Reprints available for download (PDF)
- Tide distribution and tapping into tidal energy (2004) [3.8 MB] Oceanologia
- Basic relations between tsunamis calculation and their physics-II (2003) [448 KB] Science of Tsunami Hazards (journal website)
- Tidal motion enhancement around islands (2002) [1.3 MB] Journal of Marine Research (journal website)
Selected Publications
Books
Kowalik, Z. and T. S. Murty, 1993. Numerical modeling of ocean dynamics, World Scientific Publ., 481 pp.
Articles - Tsunami
Yamazaki, Y., Z. Kowalik and K. F. Cheung (2008) Depth-integrated, non-hydrostatic model for wave breaking and run-up. Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids, DOI: 10.1002/fld.1952. Download 633KB PDF.
Kowalik, Z. (2008) Energy Flux as a tool in locating tsunami secondary sources. Science of Tsunami Hazards, v. 27, N.3, 1-29. Download 1.25MB PDF.
Kowalik, Z., J. Horrillo, W. Knight, and T. Logan (2008), Kuril Islands tsunami of November 2006: 1. Impact at Crescent City by distant scattering. J. Geoph. Res., 113, C01020, doi:10.1029/2007JC004402. Part A: Download pages 1-4; 3.4 MB PDF Part B: Download pages 5-11; 908 KB PDF.
Horrillo, J., Knight, W., and Z. Kowalik. The Kuril Islands Tsunami of November 2006. Part II: Impact at Crescent City by local amplification. Submitted to J. Geoph. Res. Download 900 KB PDF.
Kowalik, Z., Knight, W., Logan, T., and P. Whitmore, 2006. The Tsunami of 26 December, 2004: Numerical Modeling and Energy Considerations. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 164, 1-15. Download 4.15 MB PDF.
Kowalik, Z., Proshutinsky, T., and A. Proshutinsky, 2006. Tide-Tsunami Interactions. Science of Tsunami Hazards, 24(4), 242. Download 540 KB PDF.
Beget, J. E. and Z. Kowalik, 2006. Confirmation and Calibration of Computer Modeling of Tsunamis Produced by Augustine Volcano, Alaska. Science of Tsunami Hazards, 24(4), 257. Download 700 KB PDF.
Horrillo, J., Z. Kowalik, and Y. Shigihara, 2006 . Wave Dispersion Study in the Indian Ocean—Tsunami of December 26, 2004. Marine Geodesy., 29: 149-166. Download 3.3 MB PDF.
Kowalik, Z., W. Knight, T. Logan, and P. Whitmore, 2005. Numerical Modeling of the Global Tsunami: Indonesian Tsunami of 26 December 2004. Science of Tsunami Hazards, 23 (1), 40- 56. Download 1.12 MB PDF.
Kowalik, Z., Knight, W. Logan, T. and P. Whitmore, 2005. The tsunami of 26 December 2004: Numerical Modeling and energy considerations, Proceedings of the International Tsunami Symposium, Eds.: G.A. Papadopoulos and K. Satake, Chania, Greece, 27-29 June, 2005, 140-150. Download 786 KB PDF.
Kowalik, Z., 2003. Basic relations between tsunamis calculation and their physics-II, Science of Tsunami Hazards, 21(3), 154-173. Download 448 KB PDF.
Kowalik, Z. 1997. Landslide-generated tsunami in Skagway, Alaska. Science of Tsunami Hazards, 15(2), 89--106.
Kowalik, Z. and T.S. Murty. 1993. Numerical simulation of two-dimensional tsunami runup. Marine Geodesy, 16, 87--100. Download 2.15 MB PDF
Kowalik, Z., and P. M. Whitmore. 1991. An investigation of two tsunamis recorded at Adak, Alaska. Science of Tsunami Hazards, 9(2), 67-83.
Kowalik, Z., and T.S. Murty. 1987. Influence of the Size, Shape, and Orientation of the Earthquake Source Area in the Shumagin Seismic Gap on the Resulting Tsunami. J. Phys. Oc. 17(7), 1057-1062. Download 2.11 MB PDF
Kowalik, Z., J. Keinle and T.S. Murty. 1987. Tsunamis Generated by Eruptions from Mount St. Augustine Volcano, Alaska. Science. 236: 1401-1492. Download 2.78 MB PDF
Kowalik, Z., and T.S. Murty. 1984. Computation of Tsunami Amplitudes Resulting from a Predicted Major Earthquake In the Shumagin Seismic Gap. Geophys. Res., 11(12), 1243-1246. Download 1.27 MB PD
Articles - Tides
Danielson, S., Z. Kowalik, 2005. Tidal Currents in the St. Lawrence Island region. J. Geophys. Res., 110 (C10), C10004, 10.1029/2004JC002463. Download 1.4 MB PDF.
Kowalik, Z. 2004. Tide distribution and tapping into tidal energy, Oceanologia, 46(3), 291-333. Download 3.8 MB PDF.
Kowalik, Z. and A. V. Marchenko, 2002. Tidal motion enhancement around islands, Journal of Marine Research, 60, 551–581. Download 1.3 MB PDF.
Kowalik, Z. 1999. Bering Sea Tides. in The Bering Sea: Physical, Chemical and Biological Dynamics, T. R. Loughlin and K. Ohtani, Editors, Alaska Sea Grant Press, Fairbanks, AK, 93–127.
Kowalik, Z. and I. Polyakov. 1998. Tides in the Sea of Okhotsk. Journal of Physical Oceanography, v.28, n.7, 1389–1409. Download 492KB PDF.
Z. Kowalik and A. Yu. Proshutinsky, 1995. Topographic enhancement of tidal motion in the western Barents Sea, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 2613--2637.
Kowalik, Z., 1994. Modeling of topographically-amplified diurnal tides in the Nordic Seas, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 24(8), 1717--1731.
Z. Kowalik and A. Yu. Proshutinsky, 1994. The Arctic Ocean Tides, In: The Polar Oceans and Their Role in Shaping the Global Environment: Nansen Centennial Volume, Geoph. Monograph 85, AGU, 137--158.
Articles-Ocean Dynamics
Kowalik, Z. and P. Stabeno. 1999. Trapped motion around the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea. Accepted to Journal of Geophysical Research.