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What is tsunami?
In brief - Recent and historical tsunamis - Tsunami early warning system technique - Tsunami warning systems
- Key tsunami actors & organisations - Research projects - Further reading

 
Further reading
 
   

Communications Plan for the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific
Reviewed by F. Schindele and L. Kong, 2-March 2005

   
Developing Tsunami-Resilient Communities. The National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program. Reprinted from Natural Hazards, Volume 35(1), 2005.
   

For young adults
http://www.tsunami.org/references.htm#Young

   
From Commitments to Action: Advancements in Developing an Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System IOC of UNESCO
   
General reading list of tsunami publications
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/itic/library/reading_list.html
   
Glossary
The UNESCO/IOC website provides a tsunami glossary, containing definitions of the vocabulary used in the study of tsunamis. http://www.prh.noaa.gov/itic/library/pubs/glossary/glossary.html
   
How the Smart Family Survived a Tsunami (2003)
Washington Military Department
   
IOC Reports of Geoverning and Major Subsidiary Bodies: Thirty-seventh Session of the Executive Council, Paris, 23-29 June 2004
   
International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific
Nineteenth Session, Wellingtion, New Zealand, 29 September – 2 October 2003
   
Links to scientific publication list
http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/2005/publications/publications.html
   
Links and Sources for Tsunami Publications
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami-hazard/links.html#pubs
   
Links and Sources for Tsunami Videos
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami-hazard/links.html#videos
   
Online tsunami research papers
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/itic/library/pubs/research.html
   
Publications of the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami-hazard/NTHMP_Publications.pdf
   
Silver, E., Day, S. et al. (2005). Island arc debris avalanches and tsunami generation. Eos 86, 485, 489
   
Tsunami: Reduction Of Impacts through three Key Actions (TROIKA)
Eddie N. Bernard NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, Washington, USA
   
Tsunami: the great waves
The brochure provides information on what a tsunami is, how fast and how big tsunami waves could be, what cause them, and describes programmes undertaken to mitigate this hazard type, including the development of tsunami warning centres, research programmes, and safety rules describing what to do when a tsunami attacks your coastline. http://www.prh.noaa.gov/itic/library/pubs/great_waves/great_waves_en_2002.pdf
   
UNESCO-IOC: Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific – Master Plan
   
   
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