TY - GEN
T1 - U.S. Tsunami warning system
T2 - MTS/IEEE Washington, OCEANS 2015
AU - Angove, Michael D.
AU - Rabenold, Christa L.
AU - Weinstein, Stuart A.
AU - Eble, Marie C.
AU - Whitmore, Paul M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 MTS.
PY - 2016/2/8
Y1 - 2016/2/8
N2 - Tsunamis have long been recognized as a significant threat to U.S. coastlines. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its predecessor agencies have had operational responsibility for issuing U.S. Tsunami warnings since establishment of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in 1949. Today's end-to-end U.S. Tsunami warning system relies on partnerships with federal, state, territorial, international, regional, and local organizations as well as industry. It includes preparedness and mitigation activities, observation technologies that rapidly detect earthquakes and tsunamis, earthquake analysis to characterize tsunamigenic events, timely and accurate messaging, hydrodynamic models for forecasting tsunami propagation and inundation, and decisionsupport services during events to enhance community response. The U.S. system has proven to be strong and effective, but capability gaps remain. This paper examines the current state of the U.S. Tsunami warning system and previews the science, technology, research, and development efforts aimed at improving the accuracy of NOAA's suite of tsunami warning products.
AB - Tsunamis have long been recognized as a significant threat to U.S. coastlines. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its predecessor agencies have had operational responsibility for issuing U.S. Tsunami warnings since establishment of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in 1949. Today's end-to-end U.S. Tsunami warning system relies on partnerships with federal, state, territorial, international, regional, and local organizations as well as industry. It includes preparedness and mitigation activities, observation technologies that rapidly detect earthquakes and tsunamis, earthquake analysis to characterize tsunamigenic events, timely and accurate messaging, hydrodynamic models for forecasting tsunami propagation and inundation, and decisionsupport services during events to enhance community response. The U.S. system has proven to be strong and effective, but capability gaps remain. This paper examines the current state of the U.S. Tsunami warning system and previews the science, technology, research, and development efforts aimed at improving the accuracy of NOAA's suite of tsunami warning products.
KW - tsunami
KW - tsunami detection
KW - tsunami forecasting
KW - tsunami mitigation
KW - tsunami observation
KW - tsunami preparedness
KW - tsunami research
KW - tsunami warning system
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84963988155
U2 - 10.23919/oceans.2015.7404636
DO - 10.23919/oceans.2015.7404636
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84963988155
T3 - OCEANS 2015 - MTS/IEEE Washington
BT - OCEANS 2015 - MTS/IEEE Washington
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 19 October 2015 through 22 October 2015
ER -