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A New Tool for Inundation Modeling: Community Modeling Interface for Tsunamis (ComMIT)

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Almost 5 years after the 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tragedy, the 10 August 2009 Andaman tsunami demonstrated that accurate forecasting is possible using the tsunami community modeling tool Community Model Interface for Tsunamis (ComMIT). ComMIT is designed for ease of use, and allows dissemination of results to the community while addressing concerns associated with proprietary issues of bathymetry and topography. It uses initial conditions from a precomputed propagation database, has an easy-to-interpret graphical interface, and requires only portable hardware. ComMIT was initially developed for Indian Ocean countries with support from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). To date, more than 60 scientists from 17 countries in the Indian Ocean have been trained and are using it in operational inundation mapping.

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We thank USAID, AusAID, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, the Chulalongkorn University of Bangkok, Thailand, the Agency for Technology and Implementation Assessment (BPPT) of Indonesia, the Department of Risk and Disaster Management of Seychelles, and other institutions for support and hosting ComMIT training courses. We also thank Antony K. Joseph for providing us the Yanam, India tide gage data. We thank Nick Kalligeris and Baran Aydin for contributing to the Mediterranean ComMIT interface which is under development. This publication is partially funded by the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) under NOAA Cooperative Agreement No. NA17RJ1232, Contribution number: 1818; PMEL Contribution number: 3547, and the National Science Foundation of the USA.

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  1. NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98115-6349, USA

    V. V. Titov

  2. Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO), University of Washington, Box 357941, Seattle, WA, 98195-4235, USA

    C. W. Moore

  3. Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Bureau of Meteorology, GPO Box 1289, Melbourne, VIC, 3001, Australia

    D. J. M. Greenslade

  4. School of Environmental Systems Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Mailstop MO15, 35, Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia

    C. Pattiaratchi

  5. Mauritius Oceanography Institute, France Centre, Quatre Bornes, Mauritius

    R. Badal

  6. Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-2531, USA

    C. E. Synolakis

  7. Hellenic Center of Marine Research, Anavyssos, Greece

    C. E. Synolakis

  8. Department of Engineering Sciences, Middle East Technical University, 06531, Ankara, Turkey

    U. Kânoğlu

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Titov, V.V., Moore, C.W., Greenslade, D.J.M. et al. A New Tool for Inundation Modeling: Community Modeling Interface for Tsunamis (ComMIT). Pure Appl. Geophys. 168, 2121–2131 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-011-0292-4

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