Validation and verification of tsunami numerical models

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 165, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 2197-2228

  Synolakis, C E ^a   Bernard, E N ^b   Titov, V V ^c   Kanoglu U ^d   Gonzalez F I ^b  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Benchmarked tsunami numerical models; Tsunami; Validated and verified tsunami numerical models

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA ASSIMILATION; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TSUNAMI EVENT; WAVE MODELING;

EID: 59549095793     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-004-0427-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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