Introduction¶
TsunAWI was developed in the framework of the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System (GITEWS, https://www.gitews.org) and simulates all stages of a tsunami from the origin and the propagation in the ocean to the arrival at the coast and the inundation on land. It solves the non-linear shallow water equations on an unstructured finite element grid that allows to change the resolution seamlessly between a coarse grid in the deep ocean and a fine representation of coastal structures.
The implementation started in 2005 and many scientists contributed substantially. TsunAWI was developped by Jörn Behrens, Alexey Androsov, Stephan Braune, Sergey Danilov, Annika Fuchs, Sven Harig, Natalja Rakowsky, Jens Schröter, Dmitry Sein, Dmitry Sidorenko, Olga Startseva, Eifu Taguchi.
Projects and Funding¶
Indonesia Tsunami Early Warning System¶
GITEWS, German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System, 2005-2011, funded by BMBF
Project for Training, Education and Consulting for Tsunami Early Warning Systems, sustainability phase of GITEWS, 2011-2014, funded by BMBF
Software support for the tsunami simulation component of the Indonesia Tsunami Early Warning System InaTEWS at BMKG, Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi dan Geofisika, Jakarta, in cooperation with gempa GmbH, since 2015.
“Strengthening the Decision Support System of the Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System”, Funding by the Australian Government through the DMInnovation project, 2015-2017.
See also https://maps.awi.de/awimaps/projects/public/?cu=tsunami_simulations_in_indonesia#home for a visualisation of the scenarios for Indonesia.
Licensing & No Warranty¶
TsunAWI comes with a license based on the GNU General Public License, Version 2. It is modified in one regard: Users who modify the code are asked to report the modifications back to the original developers at AWI.
When using TsunAWI, please keep in mind that it comes with no warranty.
