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Abstract
Tropical cyclone Gita impacted the Kingdom of Tonga in February 2018, causing significant damage across the main island of Tongatapu. This dataset is a best estimate of the maximum local gust wind speed across Tongatapu, based on the best-available track information, elevation and land cover data. The data represents the maximum 0.2 second, 10-metre above ground level wind speed at (approximately) 25 metre horizontal resolution. The wind field was generated using Geoscience Australia's Tropical Cyclone Risk Model (https://github.com/GeoscienceAustralia/tcrm), and Wind Multipliers code (https://github.com/GeoscienceAusralia/Wind_Multipliers). TC Gita track was sourced from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (http://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/jtwc.html)
Product Type
dataset
eCat Id
123993
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Keywords
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- Tropical cyclone
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- Published_External
Publication Date
2018-11-12T00:16:25
Creation Date
2018-05-07T00:00:00
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Status
final
Purpose
To enable impact assessment for Tongatapu
Maintenance Information
notPlanned
Topic Category
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Series Information
Lineage
Created for the PacSAFE project 2016-2018
Parent Information
Extents
[-21.28, -21.05, -175.364, -175.024]
Reference System
Spatial Resolution
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Associations
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