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A Semi‐Empirical Approach for Tsunami Inundation: An Application to the Coasts of South Italy
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NSTL
Amer Geophysical Union
Abstract Tsunamis in the Mediterranean Sea have been increasingly investigated recently due to past destructive events. We present a novel operational approach for evaluating tsunami‐induced inundation, based on a generalization of Green's law and a chain of intermediate and small‐scale simulations. At the intermediate level, simulations with a linear solver are made to identify the distribution of a novel parameter, namely α, condensing all nearshore wave transformations other than shoaling. α represents a proxy for coastal susceptibility to the tsunami impact. Small‐scale modeling of coastal flooding performed at locations for which a DTM is freely available, at the Esaro river estuary (Calabria) and in Bari (Apulia), yields inundation levels that compare well with those obtained via intermediate‐scale modeling, with a saving in computational time of about 41%. This demonstrates the value of α to “scale” the offshore wave input and reduce computational effort to evaluate flooding at regional scale.
NSTL
Amer Geophysical Union
