tsunami forecasting News
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Tsunami forecast models `too simple`, say researchers
Tsunami forecasting could be significantly improved if the computer models used to predict wave behaviour were to incorporate data on the waves' complex behaviour as they come into shore and break, according to researchers. Writing in a themed issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, the researchers describe the current state of tsunami dynamics and forecasting, and suggest ...
By SciDev.Net
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`Culture change needed` to avert growing disaster risk
A culture change is needed if the benefits of development, such as new jobs and hospitals, are not to be destroyed in future natural disasters, according to a report released today in London. The report, 'Reducing Risks of Future Disasters: Priorities for Decision Makers', published by the UK government, calls on all development stakeholders — including aid and development funders, ...
By SciDev.Net
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Time to stop losing ocean data to vandalism
More must be done to prevent damage of ocean data buoys that costs money, vital data — and lives, say Sidney Thurston and M. Ravichandran. The global community relies on a rapidly expanding ocean observing network to understand the climate and ecosystems, to help warn against ocean-borne hazards such as tsunamis and storm surges caused by cyclones, and to support sea rescue missions. ...
By SciDev.Net
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