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Simple Long Ocean Wave Model (slowmo)

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PLEASE SEE COPYRIGHT STATEMENT AT END OF FILE
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Introduction
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  This application calculates the travel time for a tsunami to 
  surrounding areas. The travel time is subsequently plotted as 
  a contour plot. The application can be run as a web server
  and accessed using a web browser.

  slowmo is written in Python and is free software distributed 
  under the GNU General Public Licence.

Installing slowmo
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  Please refer to the INSTALL file.

Running slowmo in command line mode
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  Go to the directory where you want your output files placed and run:
  
    tsunami.py longitude latitude

  This will produce a global map of travel times originating from the
  specified longitude and latitude using the full 5 minutes bathymetry.
  5 minutes correspond to a spatial resolution of 9.26 kilometers at 
  the equator. 
  
  A full global calculation can be quite cpu and memory consuming. It 
  is therefore recommended that you either specify a subdomain by
  using the option

    --window=WINDOW

  or that you subsample the bathymetry (so that you do not use every 
  point in the bathymetry) using the option

    --subsample=SUBSAMPLE

  The units for WINDOW are degrees while SUBSAMPLE is an integer. You 
  can experiment with the options on your own computer to produce 
  results that are satisfactory for your purposes.

Running slowmo in web server mode
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  It is also possible to run the application as a web server. It is
  then possible to use a web browser as the interface. To do this 
  you should change to a directory where you have write permissions 
  and want temporary output files placed (use an empty directory so
  that you don't overwrite any of your own files). Copy the file
  
    prod.cfg

  from the slowmo distribution to the current working directory and 
  type:

    tsunami-server.py

  The web server will take some time to start up (it is processing the
  bathymetry at start-up). When you see output similar to the following 
  in the file server.log the server is ready:

    2005/09/12 10:10:06 HTTP INFO Serving HTTP on socket: ('', 8080)
  
  You can then access the webserver with your browser on:

    http://localhost:8080/

  where localhost should be the name of your machine (try localhost if
  you don't know it). 
  
Contact information
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  Questions, bug-reports and suggestions should be directed to the
  slowmo forums at sourceforge.net or the author.

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  Copyright (C) 2003  the authors (see AUTHORS file for list)

  Simple Long Ocean Wave Model is free software; you can redistribute 
  it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License 
  as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the 
  License, or (at your option) any later version.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

Comments are welcome.

	- the authors

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