a Web-Based and Cloud Capable Tsunami Forecast Tool: Tweb
Abstract
With the move from historically desktop-based technologies towards the cloud, it was inevitable that some tsunami forecast applications would also follow this path. This talk describes Tweb, a web-based tsunami forecast application that is under development at the NOAA Center for Tsunami Research for use by domestic and international partners. While the Tweb tool will centralize forecast technology at a single data center, it will also build on existing distributed tools that allow for localized tsunami inundation product generation. Tweb will be an aggregator for these distributed generated tsunami products and will allow a central access point for tsunami event forecast tools and products. This talk describes the NOAA tsunami forecast methodology on which design of the Tweb application is based, the technologies, system architecture, challenges and implementation details of the application. We also discuss the use of Tweb as a model testbed, the distributed forecast tools and their integration into Tweb.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2013
- Bibcode:
- 2013AGUFMNH43A1730B
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- 4564 OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL Tsunamis and storm surges