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.

A Semi-Empirical Approach for Tsunami Inundation: An Application to the Coasts of South Italy / Melito, Lorenzo; Lalli, Francesco; Postacchini, Matteo; Brocchini, Maurizio. - In: GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. - ISSN 1944-8007. - ELETTRONICO. - 49:11(2022). [10.1029/2022GL098422]

A Semi-Empirical Approach for Tsunami Inundation: An Application to the Coasts of South Italy

Melito, Lorenzo
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Postacchini, Matteo;Brocchini, Maurizio
2022-01-01

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.
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