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Tsunami Glossary of Terms

Submitted by ashley.sommer on Thu, 18/04/2024 - 10:42

A tsunami is a series of ocean waves with very long wavelengths (typically hundreds of kilometres) caused by large-scale disturbances of the ocean, such as: earthquakes; landslide; volcanic eruptions; explosions; meteorites. These disturbances can either be from below (e.g. underwater earthquakes with large vertical displacements, submarine landslides) or from above (e.g. meteorite impacts).
Tsunami is a Japanese word with the English translation: "harbour wave".
This vocabulary contains words relating to a tsunami.

Tidal Terminology

Submitted by ashley.sommer on Thu, 18/04/2024 - 10:41

This glossary includes a variety of terms associated with tides and sea level and is based on material sourced from the Bureau of Meteorology (http://www.bom.gov.au) and Australian Hydrographic Office.

NEII Site Status

Submitted by ashley.sommer on Thu, 18/04/2024 - 10:28

Site status provides a description of whether an environmental monitoring site within the National Environmental Monitoring Sites Register is active, in-active, decommissioned etc.

NEII Sampling Regime

Submitted by ashley.sommer on Thu, 18/04/2024 - 10:28

Sampling regime is the frequency of site observations. The initial list of sampling regimes is based on a subset of NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Temporal Data Resolution keywords (http://gcmd.nasa.gov/learn/keyword_list.html).