A High-Frequency (HF) radar was installed by Ocean Networks Canada in Tofino, BC, to detect tsunamis from farand near-field sources on the Pacific Ocean side of Vancouver Island; in particular, from seismic sources in the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Based on a classical analysis of the Doppler spectrum, this HF radar can measure ocean surface currents up to a 85-110 km range depending on sea stat...

A new model for propagation of long waves including the coastal area is introduced. This model considers only the motion of the surface of the sea under the condition of preservation of mass and the sea floor is inserted into the model as an obstacle to the motion. Thus we obtain a constrained hyperbolic free-boundary problem which is then solved numerically by a minimizing method called the di...

Characteristics of the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami have been revealed by collaborative tsunami surveys extensively performed under the coordination of the Joint Tsunami Survey Group. The complex behaviors of the mega-tsunami were characterized by the unprecedented scale and the low occurrence frequency. The limitation and the performance of tsunami countermeasures were described on the basis of tsunami...

We aim to improve the techniques to predict tsunami wave heights along the coast. The modeling of tsunamis with the shallow water equations has been very successful, but often shortcomings arise, for example because wave dispersion is neglected. To bypass the latter shortcoming, we use the (linearized) variational Boussinesq model derived by Klopman et al. [12]. Another shortcoming is that comp...