Mapping and Modeling Subcommittee

The Mapping and Modeling Subcommittee brings together expertise on modeling and mapping of tsunami hazards. The MMS develops, standardizes, and improves tools that show how tsunamis could affect people and property. Examples of these tools, which are used for emergency and community planning, include tsunami inundation (flooding) and evacuation maps that show who and what is at risk.

Mapping and Modeling Subcommittee

• Terms of Reference   (May 27, 2021)
• MMS Membership
• 2018 MMS Annual Work Plan
• 2019 MMS Annual Work Plan

MMS Meetings:
• 2020 Winter Meeting, January 28 - 30, 2020

• MMS Meeting Minutes

Modeling Guidance

The following are MMS's contributions to the Tsunami Modeling and Mapping: Guidelines and Best Practices Series. The full series is available on the NTHMP Publications page.

• Part I: Tsunami Inundation Modeling
• Part II: Tsunami Inundation Maps
• Part III: Tsunami Inundation Determination for Non-Modeled Regions
• Part IV: Tsunami Evacuation Maps
• Part V: Landslide Modeling Guidelines
• Meteotsunami Modeling Guidelines
• Checklist for Tsunami Modeling and Mapping Reports and/or Metadata

Modeling Products

• NTHMP Inundation Products List   (April, 2009)
• Guidance for safe Minimum Offshore Depth for Vessel Movement for Tsunamis   (February, 2017)

Reference Materials

• Sediment Transport Bibliography of Known Research and Projects   (July, 2018)

Models that Meet Defined Criteria for NTHMP Modeling and Mapping

Based on TWEA Sec 5 C(1) text that reads: "...use inundation models that meet a standard of accuracy defined by the Administration to improve the quality and extent of inundation mapping, including assessment of vulnerable inner coastal and nearshore areas, in a coordinated and standardized fashion to maximize resources and the utility of data collected;..."

• Benchmarked Tsunami Models (As of August 17, 2017)

Tsunami Model Benchmarking

• Criteria and Process
• MMS Benchmarking Criteria  (August, 2016)
• MMS Benchmarking Actions   (2008)
• The NTHMP Tsunami Inundation Model Acceptance Process    (2016)

• Benchmark Problems
• Summary of NTHMP Tsunami Inundation Benchmark Problems   (2015)
• Data to run benchmark problems and MATLAB scripts for standardized analysis of results can be downloaded here.
• Standards, criteria, and procedures for NOAA evaluation of tsunami numerical models. NOAA Tech. Memo. OAR PMEL-135   (2015)

• Workshops
• Proceedings and Results of the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program 2015 Tsunami Current Modeling Workshop   (March, 2017)
• Proceedings and results of the 2011 NTHMP Model Benchmarking Workshop   (July, 2012)
• Repository of the Benchmark Problems for the 2011 NTHMP Model Benchmarking Workshop   (2011)
• Summary Report for the NTHMP MMS Tsunami Inundation Model Validation Workshop   (April, 2011)
• NTHMP Tsunamigenic Landslide Model Benchmarking Workshop   (January, 2017)

National Centers for Environmental Information

• NTHMP DEM Priority List   (August, 2018)
• Tsunami Data & Information
• Digital Elevation Models
• DEM Discovery Portal