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The German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System (GITEWS) has been established after the devasting Tsunami in the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004. The system follows an “end-to-end” approach to cover the complete warning chain from rapid hazard detection over decision support to capacity development of communities at risk and the implementation of disaster reduction measures. The paper discusses the specific challenges of Tsunami early warning in Indonesia, describes recent developments in instrumentation and data analysis and summarizes the system performance over the past 5 years.
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The GITEWS project (German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System) was carried out by a large group of scientists and engineers from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences (consortium leader) and its partners from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research (HZG), the German Marine Research Consortium (KDM), the GEOMAR \({\vert }\) Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, the United Nations University (UNU), the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), the German Agency for Technical Cooperation GmbH (GIZ), as well as from Indonesia and other international partners. Particular thank we would like to give to Dr. Sri Woro B. Harijono and Dr. Prih Harjadi (Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi dan Geophysik, Jakarta), Dr. Idwan Suhardi and Mr. Pariatmono (Indonesian Minsitry for Research RISTEK) and Dr. Cecep Subarya in place of the many Indonesian colleagues who contributed to the development and the success of the GITEWS project. Funding was provided by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) through the GITEWS project, Grant03TSU01 and still is within the PROTECTS project, Grant03TSU07. The authors would like to thank Phelim Burgess for a language tuning of the original manuscript.
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Lauterjung, J., Rudloff, A., Münch, U., Acksel, D. (2014). The Earthquake and Tsunami Early Warning System for the Indian Ocean (GITEWS). In: Wenzel, F., Zschau, J. (eds) Early Warning for Geological Disasters. Advanced Technologies in Earth Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12233-0_9
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