Severe Wind Hazard Assessment for Queensland - Tropical Cyclone Scenarios

<div>The Severe Wind Hazard Assessment for Queensland arose as a project to better understand the potential impacts of tropical cyclones (TCs) on population centres and elements of critical infrastructure in Queensland. The rationale for the project was reinforced by lessons from Severe Tropical Cyclone (STC) Debbie, the direct and indirect impacts of which affected a significant area of Queensland, stretching from Bowen to the City of Gold Coast and Northern New South Wales between 28 March and 7 April 2017, resulting in 14 mostly flood associated deaths, and more than A$3.5 billion in direct losses. The intent of the project is to explore and assess a range of scenarios that extend beyond the contemporary recollection of severe events in order to challenge decision making for rarer but higher-consequence events. The scenarios described in the report can be used to improve planning for severe tropical cyclone (TC) events and their impacts. This includes developing a better understanding of how the capabilities of emergency services and supporting elements may be impacted in actual events. </div><div><br></div><div>Scenarios were selected from the catalogue of synthetic events (i.e. events that did not actually occur but whose occurrence was as probable as those that did occur) generated for the 2018 Tropical Cyclone Hazard Assessment (TCHA; Arthur, 2018), in consultation with Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) and those local governments involved within the project. Two TC events were modelled for each location for this project – a Category 3 and a Category 5 TC -with ‘favourable’ tracks for impact analysis. In all scenarios, consideration was given to regional historical analogues for the selected synthetic tracks to better relate the scenario outputs to known or “lived” events. These categories were chosen as they represent events with a moderate and very low likelihood with respect to intensity, based on historical observations. This also accounts for the future climate of less TCs but more intense occurrences, highlighting the different impacts arising from different events. It is important to emphasise and understand that each individual TC event will be different and lead to different impacts. </div><div><br></div>

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Date (Creation): 2022-10-12T20:00:00

Date (Publication): 2022-12-11T22:59:21

Citation identifier: Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/147542

Citation identifier: Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/147542

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Publisher	Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)	Voice

Purpose: Enable access to wind fields, tracks and impacts of hypothetical tropical cyclone scenarios for Queensland communities analysed in the Severe Wind Hazard Assessment for Queensland

Status: Completed

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Point of contact	Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)	Voice
Point of contact	Kendall, D.	Place and Communities Internal Contact

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Website: Data Store directory containing the digital product files

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Title: Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date: 2018-11-01T00:00:00

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Classification: Unclassified

Classification system: Australian Government Security Classification System

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Title: Australian National Exposure Information System (NEXIS) Data Collection

Citation identifier: 144651

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Title: Australian Tropical Cyclone Hazard Assessment Collection

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Title: Hazard Impact Assessment: HazImp

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Citation identifier: e601ee96-3292-1bda-e044-00144fdd4fa6

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OnLine resource: Download Cairns Scenario Data (zip) [470.24 MB]

Download Cairns Scenario Data (zip) [470.24 MB]

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OnLine resource: Download Gladstone Scenario Data (zip) [425.08 MB]

Download Gladstone Scenario Data (zip) [425.08 MB]

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OnLine resource: Download Gold Coast Scenario Data (zip) [125.25 MB]

Download Gold Coast Scenario Data (zip) [125.25 MB]

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OnLine resource: Download Kowanyama Scenario Data (zip) [2.48 GB]

Download Kowanyama Scenario Data (zip) [2.48 GB]

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OnLine resource: Download Mackay Scenario Data (zip) [1.2 GB]

Download Mackay Scenario Data (zip) [1.2 GB]

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OnLine resource: Download Mornington Island Scenario Data (zip) [147.24 MB]

Download Mornington Island Scenario Data (zip) [147.24 MB]

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OnLine resource: Download Pormpuraaw Scenario Data (zip) [2.67 GB]

Download Pormpuraaw Scenario Data (zip) [2.67 GB]

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OnLine resource: Download Townsville Scenario Data (zip) [2.95 GB]

Download Townsville Scenario Data (zip) [2.95 GB]

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OnLine resource: Download Severe Wind Hazard Assessment Scenario Data Description (docx) [294.62 KB]

Download Severe Wind Hazard Assessment Scenario Data Description (docx) [294.62 KB]

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Statement: <div>Data were created from TC scenarios selected from the 2018 Tropical Cyclone Hazard Assessment (Arthur, 2018), in conjunction with National Exposure Information System residential building data. The impact data was calculated using the HazImp Impact Assessment software ( https://github.com/GeoscienceAustralia/hazimp). </div>

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Edition date: 2018-11-01T00:00:00

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Date info (Creation): 2022-12-11T21:36:28

Date info (Revision): 2022-12-11T21:36:28

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Title: Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition: Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier: https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

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