• Product catalogue
  •  
  •  
  •  

National Guidelines for Tsunami Hazard Modelling: A collaboration between scientists and end-users

Tsunamis are relatively rare in Australia and emergency managers rely on the sharing of information at national forums to assist them to manage the tsunami risk in their own jurisdiction. Emergency managers responsible for tsunami risk management across Australia recently identified the need for national consistency in tsunami hazard information and as a result, a project was initiated to develop national guidelines for tsunami hazard modelling.


This presentation will outline the approach adopted to develop these guidelines, focusing on the collaboration of end-users and tsunami modelling practitioners. The guidelines were explicitly designed to facilitate appropriate standards of rigour and improved national consistency in tsunami hazard modelling, without dictating software choices or otherwise suppressing innovative practices (which will evolve over time in concert with improvements in tsunami science). The guidelines focused instead on providing guidance in designing a study suitable for the use-case being considered. Core issues included the treatment of uncertainties in tsunami generation, propagation and inundation modelling, and scenario return periods.


Whilst the emergency managers proposed the development of these guidelines, the target audience included any agency would could commission tsunami hazard studies for a particular purpose (e.g. coastal infrastructure owners, insurance), as well as the tsunami modellers conducting such studies. The guidelines will also become a valuable resource for the tsunami modelling community. In many situations, tsunami modelling is conducted by coastal hazard modellers who may not have current understanding of Australia’s tsunami hazard.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Publication)
2018-10
Date (Revision)
2020-08-13T02:27:50
Citation identifier
ga-dataSetURI/Link to be added by administrator

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Author

Davies, G.

Co-author

Sexton, J.

Purpose

Abstract for Australian Geoscience Council Convention 2018

Status
Final
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Point of contact

Davies, G.

Spatial Division Internal Contact
Resource provider

Place, Space and Communities Division

External Contact
Spatial representation type
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

Extent

N
S
E
W


Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

Resource format

Title

Administration to complete

Date
Edition

Administration to complete

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Geoscience Australia

Voice

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Website

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

Theme
  • tsunami

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
  • EARTH SCIENCES

Theme
  • hazard modelling

Keywords
  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
OnLine resource

Link to Tsunami planning handbook and companion documents

Link to Tsunami planning handbook and companion documents

Distribution format
  • html

OnLine resource

Link to volume of abstracts for the 2018 Australian Geoscience Council Convention

Link to volume of abstracts for the 2018 Australian Geoscience Council Convention

Distribution format
  • html

Resource lineage

Statement

Result of EMA project - HPRM 2017/1058

Hierarchy level
Document

Metadata constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/3f88bbe5-bfca-45fe-a21f-e56dfadc3185

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Point of contact

Davies, G.

Spatial Division Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Document
Name

Abstract

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/120731

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng//metadata/add5bc51-dd4d-408c-8c1b-deebaacf6efe

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng//metadata/3f88bbe5-bfca-45fe-a21f-e56dfadc3185

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au:80/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/3f88bbe5-bfca-45fe-a21f-e56dfadc3185

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/3f88bbe5-bfca-45fe-a21f-e56dfadc3185

Date info (Creation)
2018-05-04T03:37:56
Date info (Revision)
2018-05-08T02:01:33

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3 (Draft Schemas 2015)

Edition date
2015-07-01T00:00:00
Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, April 2015

 
 

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

hazard modelling tsunami
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
EARTH SCIENCES

Provided by

Access to the portal
Read here the full details and access to the data.

Associated resources

Not available


  •  
  •  
  •