Rapid forecast of tsunami wave heights from a database of pre-computed simulations, and application during the 2011 Tohoku tsunami in French Polynesia

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Reymond, D ^a   Okal, E A ^b   Hebert H ^a   Bourdet, M ^c  

^a DIF   (France)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NYCOMED IMAGING AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION;

RAPID ESTIMATION; REAL TIME; TSUNAMI WAVES; WAVE HEIGHTS;

TSUNAMIS;

DATA SET; DATABASE; FORECASTING METHOD; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TRENCH; TSUNAMI; WAVE HEIGHT;

MARQUESAS ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOCIETY ISLANDS; TAHITI; WINDWARD ISLANDS [SOCIETY ISLANDS];

EID: 84861860717     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051640     Document Type: Article

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