Tsunami glossary. Fourth edition.
International coordination of a tsunami warning system originated in the Pacific in 1968 under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO in cooperation with the International Tsunami Information Centre (ITIC) established on 12 November 1965 by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and hosted by the National Weather Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA). As early as 1988, experts and Member States recognized the need to develop standardized tsunami terminology in the form of a glossary which had endorsement of the scientific community. The first edition of the Tsunami Glossary (IOC Technical series, 37, 1991) was published by IOC and ITIC and contained more than 2000 terms and definitions building on disciplines such as geophysics, oceanography, engineering and mathematics. Following the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, the IOC was mandated by the United Nations to coordinate development of similar regional tsunami and other coastal hazards warning and mitigation systems in the Caribbean, the Northeastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean in addition to the Pacific Ocean. Expert groups from different regional perspectives developed a common understanding of language to be used for the development of the four regional systems. Under the coordination of ITIC, this international effort resulted in 2008 in a new edition of the Tsunami Glossary (IOC Technical Series No 85). Over the years the Glossary has been translated and is available in English (original), Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, Spanish, Urdu, Korean, Tagalog, Thai and several other languages. Since 2015 changes to the content of the Tsunami Glossary are subject to the validation of the IOC Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards related to Sea-Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG) and subsequent endorsement by the Governing Bodies of the IOC. By this mechanism it is expected that the publication will be recognized and adopted by Member States as a validated standard in this field. The 2019 edition of Tsunami Glossary includes the definition of technical terms, and information on the expert and governance groups for tsunami warning and mitigation.
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| Format: | Report biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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UNESCO
2019
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| Subjects: | ASFA_2015::T::Tides, ASFA_2015::T::Tsunamis, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/42083 |
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