Welcome to the website for the National Academies' Committee of the Tsunami Warning and Forecast System Review: From Warnings to Forecasts. The study is funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The committee's statement of task is as follows:
The committee will review the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Tsunami Program to assess progress and improvements made since 2005 to strengthen the existing U.S. tsunami detection, forecast, and warning system, including:
- reliability of critical deep ocean and nearshore sea level monitoring stations
- data quality control, management, archiving, and dissemination
- modeling of tsunami generation, propagation, and inundation
- data acquisition, processing, and assessment for warning generation
- forecast accuracy, warning notification, and dissemination
- further modernization and geographic coverage needs
- strategies to ensure long-term operational reliability and sustainability
- level of coordination and integration with:
- state and local level tsunami programs for facilitating mitigation
- United States ocean and coastal observation systems, including the Integrated Ocean Observing System
- global observing systems, including the global earth observing system of systems
In its assessment, the committee will consider measures in the tsunami detection, forecast, and warning program implemented and planned by NOAA under the Tsunami Warning and Education Act (P.L. 109-424). In addition, the committee will recommend priority areas of targeted research and development in the U.S. to improve performance and guide modernization efforts by NOAA.
We hope this website proves to be useful. Additional study information will be posted once the project begins.
