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QGIS Model: Tsunami Inundation Analysis

Screens how far inland a tsunami of a height you choose could reach, from a DEM, a coastline and land use roughness, using the published Berryman height-loss method.

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Format
ZIP: .model3 file, PDF guide and licence, 130 KB
Requirements
QGIS 3.36 or later with the GRASS provider (included in the standard QGIS installers); tested on QGIS 3.44
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0 (attribution: Semir Kahrimanovic / Bozmaps)

About this model

Built for coastal risk screening, this model turns a DEM and a land use layer carrying Manning's roughness values into a height-loss cost surface (Berryman 2005: Hloss = 167 n^2 / H0^(1/3) + 5 sin S), then spreads the wave inland from your coastline with GRASS r.cost until it has lost all its height. You get an inundation extent raster holding the wave height left in every cell it reaches, and vector hazard zones (high, moderate, low) with areas in hectares. The README lists published Manning's n values with sources. It is a screening model, not a hydrodynamic simulation: the method is known to underestimate inundation and steep sea walls stop the wave in the model.

What's included

  • Tsunami inundation QGIS model (.model3)
  • PDF guide with inputs, method, sources, test results and limitations
  • Licence

Inputs

  • AOI polygon (land side of the coastline)
  • Digital Elevation Model
  • Coastline (line layer)
  • Land use polygons with roughness value (n)
  • Wave height at the coastline

Outputs

  • Inundation extent raster (wave height left, m)
  • Inundation zones (vector) with area
  • Height-loss cost surface

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