25.01.2015 Views

IASPEI - Picture Gallery

IASPEI - Picture Gallery

IASPEI - Picture Gallery

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

IUGG XXIV General Assembly July 2-13, 2007 Perugia, Italy<br />

(S) - <strong>IASPEI</strong> - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's<br />

Interior<br />

JSS002 Poster presentation 1807<br />

Precise algorithm for tsunami wave rays and travel-time computations<br />

Dr. Andrey Marchuk<br />

International Tsunami Commission Member of the International Tsunami Commission <strong>IASPEI</strong><br />

Calculation of tsunami travel-times is still important for the tsunami prognosis and investigation of<br />

historical tsunamis. The methods based on the Huygence principle are the most widely used in the<br />

areas with complicated topology and bottom relief. The main disadvantage of this method is limitation<br />

of possible directions of the wave-ray segments that connect neighboring grid-points. The proposed<br />

algorithm define travel-times more accurately by taking into account all directions of the ray segments.<br />

Corrected travel-time values can be used for restoring the ray-traces which connect the source with all<br />

other grid-points of the computational area. The method was tested on some primitive models of<br />

bottom relief. The shapes of tsunami isochrones and wave rays are approaching theoretical solutions.<br />

Keywords: tsunami, travel time, wave rays

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!