Development, testing, and applications of site-specific tsunami inundation models for real-time forecasting

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Tang, L ^a,b   Titov, V V ^b   Chamberlin, C D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; EARTHQUAKES; FORECASTING; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HAZARDS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ARRIVAL TIME; DEEP OCEAN; DYNAMIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EARTHQUAKE-GENERATED TSUNAMIS; EVENT-SPECIFIC; FORECAST MODEL; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; HIGHER RESOLUTION; MAXIMUM WAVE HEIGHT; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; NEARSHORES; NON-LINEARITY; NUMERICAL RESULTS; REAL-TIME FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SITE-SPECIFIC; SOURCE ASSESSMENT; SOURCE FUNCTIONS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TOPOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; TRAVEL TIME; TSUNAMI FORECAST; TSUNAMI HAZARDS; TSUNAMI INUNDATION; TSUNAMI WAVES; WARNING SYSTEMS; WAVE AMPLITUDES;

TSUNAMIS;

BATHYMETRY; BOUNDARY CONDITION; FLOODING; FORECASTING METHOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; SUBDUCTION; TSUNAMI; WARNING SYSTEM; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVELET;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949352903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005476     Document Type: Article

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