Debris Modeling Benchmarking Workshop
May 22 - 23, 2023 Newport, Oregon
To help produce accurate and consistent tsunami hazard products, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) is supporting this workshop. With the results of this effort, it is anticipated that modelers will have a better awareness of their ability to accurately capture the physics of debris motion, and therefore a better understanding of how to use these simulation tools for hazard assessment and mitigation efforts.
For this workshop, five different benchmarking datasets have been organized. These datasets have been selected based on characteristics such as geometric complexity, types of entrained debris, and number of entrained debris. While tsunami simulation models have generally been well validated against wave height and runup, comparisons with transport data are much less common. As model results are increasingly being used to estimate or indicate damage to coastal infrastructure, understanding the accuracy and precision of debris predictions becomes of important.