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Rapid forecasting of tsunami runup heights from 2-D numerical simulations
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea
2Tsunami Laboratory, Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia
3Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute, Ansan, Korea
4Department of Nonlinear Geophysical Processes, Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 46 Uljanov Street, 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Abstract. We propose a method to compute tsunami runup heights that is based on an integration of numerical, 2-D shallow-water modelling and an analytical, 1-D long-wave runup theory. This approach provides a faster forecast of tsunami runup heights than a complicated coastal inundation model. Through simulations of potential tsunami scenarios, this approach can also be applied to long-term tsunami prediction. We tested the model by simulating the historical event in the East (Japan) Sea and found that the estimates of runup heights agreed well with the available observations.
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Citation: Choi, B. H., Kaistrenko, V., Kim, K. O., Min, B. I., and Pelinovsky, E.: Rapid forecasting of tsunami runup heights from 2-D numerical simulations, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 11, 707-714, doi:10.5194/nhess-11-707-2011, 2011. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
