<div>The Abbot Point to Hydrographers Passage bathymetry survey was acquired for the Australian Hydrographic Office (AHO) onboard the RV Escape during the period 6 Oct 2020 – 16 Mar 2021. This was a contracted survey conducted for the Australian Hydrographic Office by iXblue Pty Ltd as part of the Hydroscheme Industry Partnership Program. The survey area encompases a section of Two-Way Route from Abbot Point through Hydrographers Passage QLD. Bathymetry data was acquired using a Kongsberg EM 2040, and processed using QPS QINSy. The dataset was then exported as a 30m resolution, 32 bit floating point GeoTIFF grid of the survey area.</div><div>This dataset is not to be used for navigational purposes.</div>

The Approaches to Darwin, Beagle Gulf bathymetry survey was acquired for the Australian Hydrographic Office (AHO) onboard the M/V Limitless and PHS Zephyr during the period 26 June – 30 August 2020. This was a contracted survey conducted as part of the HydroScheme Industry Partnership Program (HIPP). The survey area lies North-West of Cox Peninsula, encompassing South Gutter and is bounded by North Gutter, Fenton Patches and Fish Reef. Bathymetry data was acquired using a Kongsberg R2Sonic 2026 and R2Sonic 2024 and processed using QPS Qimera V2.0.1. The dataset was then exported to GeoTIFF using CARIS HIPS and SIPS software. This dataset contains a 30m-resolution 32-bit floating point GeoTIFF file. This dataset is not to be used for navigation.

This is a subset of Geoscience Australia's Marine Connectivity Database (<a href="https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/82692">here</a>), covering the North-west marine planning region for initial releases taking place in the interval January-March 2010. The subset is intended for use in development and testing as part of the GovHack 2016 competition.

The NEAM Tsunami Hazard Model 2018 (NEAMTHM18) is a probabilistic hazard model for tsunamis generated by earthquakes. It covers the coastlines of the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and connected seas (NEAM). NEAMTHM18 was designed as a three-phase project. The first two phases were dedicated to the model development and hazard calculations, following a formalized decision-making process based on a multiple-expert protocol. The third phase was dedicated to documentation and dissemination. The hazard assessment workflow was structured in Steps and Levels. There are four Steps: Step-1) probabilistic earthquake model; Step-2) tsunami generation and modeling in deep water; Step-3) shoaling and inundation; Step-4) hazard aggregation and uncertainty quantification. Each Step includes a different number of Levels. Level-0 always describes the input data; the other Levels describe the intermediate results needed to proceed from one Step to another. Alternative datasets and models were considered in the implementation. The epistemic hazard uncertainty was quantified through an ensemble modeling technique accounting for alternative models’ weights and yielding a distribution of hazard curves represented by the mean and various percentiles. Hazard curves were calculated at 2,343 Points of Interest (POI) distributed at an average spacing of ∼20 km. Precalculated probability maps for five maximum inundation heights (MIH) and hazard intensity maps for five average return periods (ARP) were produced from hazard curves. In the entire NEAM Region, MIHs of several meters are rare but not impossible. Considering a 2% probability of exceedance in 50 years (ARP≈2,475 years), the POIs with MIH >5 m are fewer than 1% and are all in the Mediterranean on Libya, Egypt, Cyprus, and Greece coasts. In the North-East Atlantic, POIs with MIH >3 m are on the coasts of Mauritania and Gulf of Cadiz. Overall, 30% of the POIs have MIH >1 m. NEAMTHM18 results and documentation are available through the TSUMAPS-NEAM project website (http://www.tsumaps-neam.eu/), featuring an interactive web mapper. Although the NEAMTHM18 cannot substitute in-depth analyses at local scales, it represents the first action to start local and more detailed hazard and risk assessments and contributes to designing evacuation maps for tsunami early warning. Appeared online in Front. Earth Sci., 05 March 2021.

A new methodology is proposed to estimate storm demand and dune recession by clustered and non-clustered events, to determine if the morphological response to storm clusters results in greater beach erosion than that from individual storms that have the same average recurrence interval (ARI) or return period. The method is tested using a numerical morphodynamic model that combines both cross-shore and longshore beach profile evolution processes, forced by a 2D wave transformation model, and is applied as an example within a 20 km long coastal cell at an erosion hotspot at Old Bar, NSW mid-north coast, Australia. Wave and water level data hindcast in previous modelling (Davies et al., 2017) were used to provide two thousand different synthetic wave and tide records of 100 years duration for input to a nested nearshore 2D SWAN model that provides wave conditions at the 12 m depth contour. An open-source shoreline evolution model was used with these wave conditions to model cross-shore and longshore beach profile evolution, and was calibrated and verified against long-term dune recession observations. After a 50 year model spin up, 50 years of storm demand (change in sub-aerial beach volume) and dune toe position were simulated and ranked to form natural estimators for the 50, 25, 16, 12.5 and 10 year return period of individual events, together with confidence limits. The storm demand analysis was then repeated to find the return period of clustered and non-clustered morphological events. Morphological clusters are defined here by considering the response of the beach, rather than the forcing, with a sensitivity analysis of the influence of different recovery thresholds between storms also investigated. The new analysis approach provides storm demand versus return period curves for the combined population of clustered and non-clustered events, as well as a curve for the total population of individual events. In this approach, non-clustered events can be interpreted as the response to isolated storms. For clustered and non-clustered morphological events the expected storm demand for a 50-year return period is approximately 25% greater than that for individual events. Alternatively, for clustered and non-clustered events the magnitude of the storm demand that occurs at a return period of 17 years is the same as that which occurs at a return period of 50 years for individual events. However, further analysis shows that for a 50-year return period, the expected storm demand for the population of non-clustered events is similar to that of the clustered events, although the size of the population of the latter is much greater. Hence, isolated storms can generate the same storm demand as storm clusters, but there is a much higher probability that a given storm demand is generated by a morphologically clustered event. Appeared online in Coastal Engineering Volume 168, September 2021.

<div>The North-East Beagle Gulf and Clarence Strait bathymetry survey was acquired for the Australian Hydrographic Office (AHO) onboard the MV Offshore Guardian during the period 1 May 2021 – 13 Jul 2021. This was a contracted survey conducted for the Australian Hydrographic Office by Guardian Geomatics as part of the Hydroscheme Industry Partnership Program. The survey area encompases an area in North-East Beagle Gulf and Clarence Strait, Northern Territory. Bathymetry data was acquired using a Kongsberg EM2040 07 MK II, and processed using Caris Hips & Sips processing software. The dataset was then exported as a 30m resolution, 32 bit floating point GeoTIFF grid of the survey area.</div><div>This dataset is not to be used for navigational purposes.</div>

<div>The Darwin Reference Surfaces bathymetry survey was acquired for the Australian Hydrographic Office (AHO) on 8 Jul 2020. This surface was created from a contracted national reference survey in Darwin NT, collected for the purpose of calibrating multibeam echosounders.&nbsp;It was conducted for the Australian Hydrographic Office as part of the Hydroscheme Industry Partnership Program, acquired using R2Sonic 2026 and R2Sonic 2024, and processed using QPS Qimera. Separate grids in 0.5m resolution are provided for the two surveyed sites within this survey area in MSL, LAT and Ellipsoid vertical datum. The dataset was then exported as a 0.5m resolution, 32 bit floating point GeoTIFF grid of the survey area.</div><div>This dataset is not to be used for navigational purposes.</div>

<div>The Adelaide Reference Surfaces bathymetry survey was acquired for the Australian Hydrographic Office (AHO) during the period 4 Sep 2020 – 16 Sep 2020. This surface was created from a contracted national reference survey in Gulf St Vincent SA, collected for the purpose of calibrating multibeam echosounders.&nbsp;It was conducted for the Australian Hydrographic Office as part of the Hydroscheme Industry Partnership Program, acquired using Kongsberg EM 2040 multibeam echosounder and Kongsberg EA440 singlebeam echosounder, and processed using Caris HIPS &amp; SIPS. Separate grids in 1m resolution are provided for the 2 surveyed sites within this survey area in MSL, LAT and Ellipsoid vertical datum. The dataset was then exported as a 1m resolution, 32 bit floating point GeoTIFF grid of the survey area.</div><div>This dataset is not to be used for navigational purposes.</div>

<div>The Cairns Reference Surfaces bathymetry survey was acquired for the Australian Hydrographic Office (AHO) on 27 May 2020. This surface was created from a contracted national reference survey in Cairns QLD, collected for the purpose of calibrating multibeam echosounders.&nbsp;It was conducted for the Australian Hydrographic Office as part of the Hydroscheme Industry Partnership Program, acquired using R2Sonic 2022, and processed using Caris HIPS & SIPS. Seperate grids in 0.5m resolution are provided for the three surveyed sites within this survey area in MSL, LAT and Ellipsoid vertical datum. The dataset was then exported as a 0.5m resolution, 32 bit floating point GeoTIFF grid of the survey area.</div><div>This dataset is not to be used for navigational purposes.</div>

<div>The Torres Strait Reference Surfaces bathymetry survey was acquired for the Australian Hydrographic Office (AHO) on 12 Dec 2021. This surface was created from a contracted national reference survey between Goods Island and Goods Island cardinal mark, and Tuesday Island and the Herald Patches QLD, collected for the purpose of calibrating multibeam echosounders.&nbsp;It was conducted for the Australian Hydrographic Office as part of the Hydroscheme Industry Partnership Program, acquired using Kongsberg EM2040D, and processed using QPS Qimera. Seperate grids in 0.5m resolution are provided for the two surveyed sites within this survey area in MSL, LAT and Ellipsoid vertical datum. The dataset was then exported as a 0.5m resolution, 32 bit floating point GeoTIFF grid of the survey area.</div><div>This dataset is not to be used for navigational purposes.</div>