Observation of the 2009 Samoa tsunami by the NEPTUNE-Canada cabled observatory: Test data for an operational regional tsunami forecast model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Thomson, Richard ^a   Fine, Isaac ^a   Rabinovich, Alexander ^a,b   Mihály, Steve ^a   Davis, Earl ^c   Heesemann, Martin ^c   Krassovski, Maxim ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c PACIFIC GEOSCIENCE CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; OBSERVATORIES; SEA LEVEL;

ARCHIVING SYSTEMS; BOTTOM PRESSURE RECORDERS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; COASTAL EFFECT; COASTAL TIDE GAUGES; HIGH-PRECISION; LOCAL REGION; NEPTUNE; PRESSURE DATA; REAL TIME; REGIONAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL HEIGHT; SEAFLOOR OBSERVATORIES; TEST DATA; TSUNAMI FORECAST; TSUNAMI WAVES; WASHINGTON STATE; WAVE FORMS; WAVE INFORMATION; WEST COAST;

TSUNAMIS;

BOTTOM PRESSURE; COASTAL PROTECTION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FORECASTING METHOD; OBSERVATORY; OCEAN WAVE; OPEN OCEAN; PRECISION; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; TIDE GAUGE; TSUNAMI;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SAMOA;

EID: 79958085118     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL046728     Document Type: Article

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