NTHMP Tsunami Benchmark Tests of GeoClaw

Our group at the University of Washington performed a set of benchmark problems for the March 30, 2011 benchmarking workshop for the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program.

The report on our results is available as a pdf file.

The complete workshop proceedings contain results from a number of other models that were tested.

We also created a Github repository to to assist in sharing data and tools for this workshop.

Benchmark problems

For complete GeoClaw solutions see the report above. Some preliminary results and animations were posted here...

• Conical Island (laboratory)
• Monai Valley (laboratory)

References:

• PMEL benchmark site: nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/benchmark/

• PMEL Report 135:
  Synolakis, C.E., E.N. Bernard, V.V. Titov, U. Kânoğlu, and F.I. González (2007): Standards, criteria, and procedures for NOAA evaluation of tsunami numerical models. NOAA Tech. Memo. OAR PMEL-135, NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, 55 pp. [PDF Version]

• Synolakis, C.E., E.N. Bernard, V.V. Titov, U. Kânoğlu, and F.I. González (2008): Validation and Verification of Tsunami Numerical Models, Pure and Applied Geophysics Volume 165, Numbers 11-12, 2197-2228, DOI: 10.1007/s00024-004-0427-y [link]

• National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program