Journal of Marine Science and Engineering Article Rapid Assessment of Tsunami Offshore Propagation and Inundation with D-FLOW Flexible Mesh and SFINCS for the 2011 Tohoku¯ Tsunami in Japan Björn R. Röbke 1,*, Tim Leijnse 1, Gundula Winter 2 , Maarten van Ormondt 1, Joana van Nieuwkoop 3 and Reimer de Graaff 2 1 Department of Applied Morphodynamics, Deltares, P.O. Box 177, 2600 MH Delft, The Netherlands;
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[email protected] Abstract: This study demonstrates the skills of D-FLOW Flexible Mesh (FM) and SFINCS (Super-Fast INundation of CoastS) in combination with the Delft Dashboard Tsunami Toolbox to numerically simulate tsunami offshore propagation and inundation based on the example of the 2011 Tohoku¯ tsunami in Japan. Caused by a megathrust earthquake, this is one of the most severe tsunami events in recent history, resulting in vast inundation and devastation of the Japanese coast. The comparison of the simulated with the measured offshore water levels at four DART buoys located in Citation: Röbke, B.R.; Leijnse, T.; the north-western Pacific Ocean shows that especially the FM but also the SFINCS model accurately Winter, G.; van Ormondt, M.; van reproduce the observed tsunami propagation. The inundation observed at the Sendai coast is well Nieuwkoop, J.; de Graaff, R.