Changeset 7473

Timestamp:

Sep 3, 2009, 2:04:19 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

ole

Message:

Updated data section with more info from Richard and the generation section with input from David

Location:

anuga_work/publications/boxing_day_validation_2008

Files:

• data.tex (modified) (3 diffs)
• results.tex (modified) (4 diffs)
• tsunami07.bib (modified) (1 diff)

anuga_work/publications/boxing_day_validation_2008/data.tex

@@ -85 +85 @@
   whole of the Andaman Sea based on the 
   Smith \& Sandwell 2-minute 
-  dataset (\url{http://topex.ucsd.edu/WWW_html/srtm30_plus.html})as well as
-  Thai Navy charts no. 45 and no. 362; and  
+  dataset (\url{http://topex.ucsd.edu/WWW_html/srtm30_plus.html}), 
+  coastline constrained using SRTM data (\url{http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org}) 
+  as well as Navy charts no.\ 45 and no.\ 362; and  
 \item a one second grid created from the digitised Thai Navy
   bathymetry chart, no. 358, which covers Patong Bay and the
@@ -164 +165 @@
 
 \subsubsection{Topography Data}
-The 1 second onshore topography for Patong Beach provided by the CCOP was 
-merged with the nearshore 1 second bathymetry described in Section 
-\ref{sec:bathymetry data} to provide a seamless terrain model for the 
-bay and community as shown in Figure~\ref{fig:patong_bathymetry}.
+A 1 second grid comprising the onshore topography and the nearshore bathymetry 
+for Patong Beach was created from the Navy charts (described in Section \ref{sec:bathymetry data}) and from
+1 m and 10 m elevation contours provided in a GIS data set which was also provided by the CCOP 
+(see Section \ref{sec:inundation data} for details). 
+The 1 second terrain model for the and community as shown in Figure~\ref{fig:patong_bathymetry}.
+
+Two 1/3 second grids were created: One for the saddle point covering Merlin and Tri Trang Beaches 
+and one for Patong city and its immediate shore area.
+These grids were based on 
+the same data used for the 1 second data grid. 
+The patong city grid was further modified based on 
+satellite imagery to include 
+the river and lakes towards the south of Patong city which were not part of the GIS dataset. 
+The depth of the river and lake system was set uniformly to -1 m.
 
 
@@ -184 +195 @@
 Human-made buildings and structures can significantly affect tsunami
 inundation. The footprint and number of floors of the
-buildings in Patong Bay were extracted from a GIS data set which was also provided by the CCOP (see Section \ref{sec:inundation data} for details). 
+buildings in Patong Bay were extracted from the GIS data set from CCOP.
 The heights of these
 buildings were estimated assuming that each floor has a height of 3 m and they 
 were added to the topographic dataset. 
+
 
 \subsubsection{Inundation Survey}

anuga_work/publications/boxing_day_validation_2008/results.tex

@@ -51 +51 @@
   hand corner of the figure. The cross marks show the location of
   the pivot line (the region between the uplift and subsided region
-  where the uplift is zero) derived from remote sensing 
-  (FIXME(Jane): How was that possible?). All the
+  where the uplift is zero) derived from remote sensing of where there
+  were no changes in the amount of reef or land exposure before and after
+the earthquake (\cite{meltzner06}). All the
   observational data are from the dataset collated
   by~\cite{chlieh07}.}
@@ -69 +70 @@
 sequence of grids was used. The grid resolution of the nested grids
 went from 27 arc seconds in the coarsest grid, down to nine arc seconds
-in the second grid, three arc seconds in the third grid and finally one arc
-second in the finest grid near Patong. The computational domain is
+in the second grid and three arc seconds in the third grid. The computational domain is
 shown in Figure~\ref{fig:computational_domain}.
 
@@ -118 +118 @@
 for the \textsc{anuga} model. The interface between the \textsc{ursga}
 and \textsc{anuga} models was chosen to roughly follow the 100~m depth
-contour along the west coast of Phuket Island. The computational
+contour along the west coast of Phuket Island. Data from the 
+3 second grid was decimated to match the resolution chosen in ANUGA. 
+The computational
 domain is shown in Figure~\ref{fig:computational_domain}.
 
@@ -133 +135 @@
 region in Patong Bay. The coarse resolution was chosen to be 
 commensurate with the model output from the \textsc{ursga} model (FIXME (Ole): Richard says that the ursga model used all four grids which would mean that the
-resolution at the ANUGA boundary was 1 second or about 30m.
+resolution at the ANUGA boundary was 1 second or about 30 m.
 This is not consistent with my memory and certainly not with us choosing a
-resolution of 440m. John, do you remember what the spacing was between the
+resolution of 440 m. John, do you remember what the spacing was between the
 URSGA points? Did we weed them out or did we take them as they were?)
 

anuga_work/publications/boxing_day_validation_2008/tsunami07.bib

@@ -1206 +1206 @@
 institution = {ARROW Discovery Service [http://search.arrow.edu.au/apps/ArrowUI/OAIHandler] (Australia)},
 }
+
+
+@article{meltzner06,
+title = {Uplift and subsidence associated with the great Aceh-Andaman earthquake of 2004},
+year={2006},
+author = {Meltzner, A. J. and K. Sieh and M. Abrams and D. C. Agnew and K. W. Hudnut and J.-P. Avouac and D. H. Natawidjaja},
+journal = {J. Geophys. Res.},
+volume={111},
+doi={10.1029/2005JB003891}
+}