Tsunami Inundation Models for the GOSFORD region

Introduction

The information within this DVD is intended to assist emergency managers in tsunami planning and preparation activities. The Australian Government Attorney General’s Department (AGD) has supported Geoscience Australia (GA) in developing a range of products to support the understanding of tsunami hazard through the Australian Tsunami Warning System Project. The work reported here is intended to further build the capacity of the New South Wales (NSW) State Government in developing inundation models for prioritised locations.

While the associated report provides background, model results and interpretations, the DVD contains all data, scripts and instructions for installing software necessary to reproduce and potentially augment the models underpinning the report. This will allow the NSW State Government to rerun the models with minor modifications or new elevation data as needed and also potentially replicate the methodology for other locations within the model extent, if desired.

The data provided on this DVD is:

The Professional Opinion Report 2009/07 entitled Capacity building for tsunami planning and preparation: inundation models for two New South Wales communities
Figures of maximum inundation depth and maximum flow speed
Model outputs including:
- ArcGIS grids of maximum inundation depth and maximum flow speed for the areas of interest
- CSV files containing timeseries for specific locations in the models
- ArcGIS grid of the resulting elevation generated by the model software ANUGA
Combined elevation data used by the simulation
The Python scripts used to run the models

The input tsunami wave data on this disk are all derived from events available in the Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment (PTHA) for Australia. As this dataset is very large, this DVD only contains the events described in the report.

Report Figures

The figures from the report may be found here.

Simulation Installation and Usage

Information for installing and using the simulation is here.