NH31A:
Interdisciplinary Tsunami Science I


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Session ID#: 57407

Session Description:
Tsunamis are one of the most devastating natural disasters, with the potential for inflicting huge damage along wide stretches of coastal areas. Recent tsunami events have demonstrated that the tsunami risk has grown tremendously since the last ocean-wide tsunami of 1964, primarily due to the expansion of coastal development and the maritime communities. Tsunami science has become one of the most inter-disciplinary research areas. Social science, applied mathematics, engineering, and geology are as important to tsunami research as traditional seismology and oceanography. This session provides a broad forum for cross-disciplinary studies and invites contributions from all areas of tsunami science including: fundamental and basic research; forecast and warning procedures for current and future events; investigation of geologic records and hindcasting of past events; response, mitigation, and recovery strategies; tsunami observations; socio-economic impacts; and hazard and risk studies from tsunamis generated by earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, meteorological phenomena, and meteorite impacts.
Primary Convener:  Finn Løvholt, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway
Conveners:  Kelly J Stroker, National Centers for Environmental Information, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, Jessica Pilarczyk, University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, United States and Stefano Lorito, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Palermo, Italy
Primary Liaison:  Finn Løvholt, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway
Chairs:  Finn Løvholt, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway and Stefano Lorito, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy
OSPA Liaison:  Finn Løvholt, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway

Cross-Listed:
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
  • S - Seismology
Index Terms:

4315 Monitoring, forecasting, prediction [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4333 Disaster risk analysis and assessment [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4341 Early warning systems [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4564 Tsunamis and storm surges [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Tsunami Vulnerability of Critical Infrastructure: Development and Application of Functions for Infrastructure Impact Assessment (344035)
James Hilton Williams1, Thomas M Wilson1, Matthew Hughes1, Nick Austin Horspool2, Emily Lane3 and Liam Wotherspoon4, (1)University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, (2)GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (3)NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Christchurch, New Zealand, (4)The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Incorporation of Landslide Tsunamis in Multi-Source Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment (Invited) (375979)
Patrick J Lynett1, Rick I Wilson2 and Timothy P Mccrink2, (1)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)California Geological Survey, Sacramento, CA, United States
The 1908 Messina Tsunami: New Understanding of Coastal Impact Through Numerical Modeling of Dual Coseismic-Landslide Sources (391975)
Lauren Schambach1, Stephan T Grilli1, David R Tappin2, Maria Donatella Gangemi3 and Giuseppe Barbaro3, (1)University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, (2)British Geological Survey Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, NG12, United Kingdom, (3)Universita Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy
A New Adjoint-state Full Waveform Tsunami Source Inversion Method (384914)
Lingsen Meng, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Tong Zhou, Michigan State University, Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States
Applications of Adjoint Equations to Tsunami Modeling (419693)
Randall J LeVeque, University of Washington, Applied Mathematics, Seattle, United States and Brisa N Davis, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Applied Mathematics, Seattle, WA, United States
Development of a tsunami run-up response function and application to northern Puerto Rico (401480)
Jun-Whan Lee, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Jennifer L Irish, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Center for Coastal Studies, Blacksburg, United States and Robert Weiss, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Geosciences, Academy of Integrated Science, Blacksburg, United States
On Meteo-tsunami Forecast with the Alaska Tsunami Forecast Model, Forced by High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Product (411803)
Bohyun Bahng1, Donald Moore2, Trevor Alcott3, Paul Huang2 and Michael Angove4, (1)NOAA / NWS / National Tsunami Warning Center, Palmer, AK, United States, (2)NOAA Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, United States, (3)NOAA, ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Weather Service Tsunami Program, Silver Spring, MD, United States

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