S13E:
Decade of Megatsunamis: Science and Tsunami Warning Systems after the 2004 Sumatra Event I

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Eddie N Bernard, Pacific Tsunami Warning, Ewa Beach, HI, United States; NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States and Vasily V Titov, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Eddie N Bernard, Self Employed, Washington, DC, United States
Co-conveners:  Jose C Borrero, eCoast Ltd., Raglan, New Zealand, Stuart Weinstein, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Ewa Beach, HI, United States and Vasily V Titov, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Stuart Weinstein, Pacific Tsunami Warning, Ewa Beach, HI, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
Tsunami Science for Society
Eddie N Bernard, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States
2:10 PM
 
Lessons Learned and Unlearned from the 2004 Great Sumatran Tsunami.
Costas Synolakis, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States; Technical University of Crete, Chanea, Greece and Utku Kanoglu, Middle East Technical University, Department of Engineering Sciences, Ankara, Turkey
2:25 PM
 
Lessons learnt from the Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004: the role of surface and subsurface topography in deep water tsunami propagation
Charitha B Pattiaratchi, The University of Western Australia, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering and The UWA Oceans Institute, Nedlands, Australia
2:40 PM
 
A Dozen Tsunamis from 2004 to 2014: Lessons and Revelations
Emile A Okal, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States
2:55 PM
 
New Measurements and Modeling Capability to Improve Real-time Forecast of Cascadia Tsunamis along U.S. West Coast
Yong Wei, NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Lab & University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Vasily V Titov, NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States, Eddie N Bernard, Self Employed, Washington, DC, United States and Michael C Spillane, NOAA, Seattle, WA, United States
3:10 PM
 
Large-Scale Physical Modelling of Complex Tsunami-Generated Currents
Patrick J Lynett, Nikos Kalligeris and Aykut Ayca, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
3:25 PM
 
2011 Tohoku tsunami runup hydrographs, ship tracks, upriver and overland flow velocities based on video, LiDAR and AIS measurements
Hermann M Fritz1, David A Phillips2, Akio Okayasu3, Takenori Shimozono4, Haijiang Liu5, Seiichi Takeda3, Fahad Mohammed6, Vassilios Skanavis7, Costas Synolakis7 and Tomoyuki Takahashi8, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, United States, (2)UNAVCO, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, (4)University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (5)Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, (6)Risk Management Solutions, Inc., Newark, CA, United States, (7)Technical University of Crete, Chanea, Greece, (8)Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
 
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