The NOAA Center for Tsunami Research (NCTR),NOAA Center for Tsunami Research - http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov located at the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, Washington, performs research in support of tsunami forecast models to increase the speed and accuracy of operational forecasts and warnings, tsunami inundation models to predict tsunami impacts on coastal communities, and tsunami measurement/detection technology for optimally designed networks of tsunami buoys.
Tsunami measurements and forecast modeling
PMEL/NCTR developed and holds the patent on the Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis DART® tsunami detection buoyPMEL DART® website - http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/DART/NDBC DART® website - http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/dart.shtml that forms the backbone of the global tsunami detection network. Operational support for the DART® buoys has been transitioned to NDBC.
The NCTR's SIFT tsunami forecasting systemTsunami forecasting - http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami-forecast.html is described in the NCTR YouTube video about the 2010 Chile tsunami event, and in more detail in the NCTR Power Point presentation Developing tsunami flooding forecast software. The SIFT system is deployed at the two NOAA Tsunami Warning Centers.
In 2004, the NCTR was awarded a Department of Commerce Gold Medal|Gold Medal"for the creation and use of a new moored buoy system to provide accurate and timely warning information on tsunamis"). In 2005, the NCTR received a Department of Commerce Gold Medal, "for research and development leading to the creation of a tsunami forecasting capability".
The NCTR website The NCTR website describes the project's research and scientific publications.Scientific Publications - http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/pubs.html Event pagesTsunami Event pages http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/database_devel.html for larger tsunami events provide modeled tsunami propagation animations, tsunami energy graphics, and model-data comparisons at sea level stations. Other sections of the website include a tsunami FAQFAQ - http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/faq.php and Educational resources.Educational Resources http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/education Also included are tsunami animationsAnimations - http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/animate.html and YouTube videos.YouTube videos - https://www.youtube.com/noaapmel#p/c/2/nZ9Du7VfdSg
Notes and references
External links
NOAA Tsunami website - http://www.tsunami.noaa.gov National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program - https://web.archive.org/web/20100726110144/http://nthmp.tsunami.gov/ NOAA National Tsunami Warning Center NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center