A tsunami forecast model for Nantucket, Massachusetts.

• Main Author: Spillane, Michael C.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA Center for Tsunami Research 2015
• Subjects: Tsunamis > Massachusetts > Nantucket > Forecasting > Mathematical models; Nantucket; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7289/v5ms3qpd; https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/9409

Operational tsunami forecasting by NOAA's Tsunami Warning Centers relies on the detection of tsunami wave trains in the open ocean, inversion of these data (telemetered via satellite) to quantify their source characteristics, and real-time modeling of the impact on threatened coastal communitie...