Rat Island Field Benchmark

This test compares against tide gage and DART buoy gages from the Rat Island Event of Monday, November 17, 2003 at 06:43:07 (UTC).

benchmark site: http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/benchmark/Field/Field_RatIsland/index.html

DART buoys: Of the three buoys indicated in Figure 1 of the benchmark page, only the northern two seem to have data available online for 2003.

• Compare Figure 1 to map of DART buoys
• DART 46408 (south)
• DART 46402 (middle) Detided data: 46402_detided.txt [plot]
• DART 46403 (north) [Detided data to appear]

GeoClaw simulation is still under development.

Challenges:

• No bathymetry data is provided.
• No earthquake source data is provided. Perhaps use USGS source?
• No DART data is provided on benchmark site and the plots in Figure 1 are very small.

Other sources of information:

• Development, testing, and applications of site-specific tsunami inundation models for real-time forecasting, by L. Tang1, V. V. Titov and C. D. Chamberlin, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114(2009), C12025, doi:10.1029/2009JC005476 [paper] [figures]

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