• Question: Have you already got any predictions on the tsunami in Japan? If yes, please do share your prediction.

    Asked by alamin to David on 13 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: David Ingram

      David Ingram answered on 13 Jun 2011:


      There are model results (not predictions – but hindcasts) of the tsunami wave from NOAA in the US http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/honshu20110311/

      We are interested in predicting the propagation of a tsunami across the land but we will need a large computer (with more than 200 processors) and a new calculation tool. My Japanese friend Dr Watanabe from Hokkaido hopes to get funding from the Japanese government to develop this model, and I’ll help with the computer science aspects.

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