| Tsunami Glossary |
The Glossary is being updated to include information on the recent establishment of global intergovernmental coordination groups for tsunami warning and mitigation, and to include
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| 1. Tsunami Classification |
Characteristics of the Tsunami Phenomena
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| 2. General Tsunami Terms: A... to Tr... |
This section contains the general terms used in tsunami mitigation and in tsunami generation and modelling. PART 1: A-TR.
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| 2. General Tsunami Terms: Ts... |
Part 2 of General Terms: Ts...
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| 3. Surveys and Measurements |
This section contains terms used to measure and describe tsunami waves on mareograph and in the field during a survey, and terms used to describe the size of the tsunami.
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| 4. Tide, Mareograph, Sea Level |
This section contains terms to describe sea level and the instruments used to measure tsunami.
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| 5. Acronyms & Organizations |
The IOC Global Tsunami Warning and Mitigation Systems work in partnership with a number of organizations and utilize specific acronyms to describe system governance, and the different tsunami information products.
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| 6. Bibliography |
General
Atwater, Brian F., et.al., Surviving a tsunami - Lessons from Chile, Hawaii, and Japan. USGS Circular 1187. [Washington DC]: GPO, rev 2005.
Bernard, E.N., ed., Developing tsunami-resi
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