Climate Glossary
Definitions for common climate terms
Bioregional Assessment Programme Glossary
Terms and definitions used in technical products in the Bioregional Assessment Programme, a collaboration between the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy, the Bureau of Meteorology, CSIRO and Geoscience Australia. See http://www.bioregionalassessment.gov.au for more information about the Programme.
Australian Network of Hydrologic Reference Stations glossary
This glossary defines the key terms used on the Australian Network of Hydrologic Reference Stations portal.
Australian Landscape Water Balance
The information presented on the Australian Landscape Water Balance website is produced by the Bureau's operational Australian Water Resources Assessment Landscape model (AWRA-L). AWRA-L is a daily 0.05° grid-based, distributed water balance model, conceptualised as a small unimpaired catchment. It simulates the flow of water through the landscape from the rainfall entering the grid cell through the vegetation and soil moisture stores and then out of the grid cell through evapotranspiration, runoff or deep drainage to the groundwater.
Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric (Geofabric)
Terminology from the Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric (Geofabric) data model
Bioregional Assessment Programme
The Australian Government’s bioregional assessment programs provide transparent scientific information to better understand the potential impacts of unconventional gas and coal mining developments on water and the environment. There are two separate programs of bioregional assessments.
BoM Climate Services
The Climate Services unit within the Bureau of Meteorology
BoM Groundwater Unit
The Groundwater Unit within the Bureau of Meteorology
Stratigraphic Units Ontology
This is an extremely simple ontology - part of the Stratigraphic Units profile - whos purpose is only to provide a Semantic Web view of the data contained within the Australian Stratigraphic Units Database. Data from that database is also available according to a number of other profiles which, in some cases, this ontology specialises.
Ontology for the Australian National Soil Information System (ANSIS)
A domain-model for Australian soil data, including observations and sampling.
This domain model was developed in 2022 for the Australian National Soil Information System (ANSIS). It is based primarily on the elements described in the Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook (ASLS). The value space of most properties are encoded as controlled vocabularies hosted, which are currently available from Research Vocabularies Australia.
The model is formalized as an OWL Ontology. Cardinalities and property value-spaces are encoded as owl:Restrictions.