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University of Wollongong

2007

Australian

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Safety Culture And Hazard Risk Perception Of Australian And New Zealand Maritime Pilots, Rosa M. Darbra, J.F.E. Crawford, C. W. Haley, R. J. Morrison Jan 2007

Safety Culture And Hazard Risk Perception Of Australian And New Zealand Maritime Pilots, Rosa M. Darbra, J.F.E. Crawford, C. W. Haley, R. J. Morrison

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A survey of the safety culture and hazard risk perception has been carried out involving 77 maritime pilots around Australia and New Zealand, representing more than 20% of the maritime pilots in each country, in proportional geographic districbution.


Impact Of Data Uncertainty On The Spatio-Temporal Distribution Of Australian Cyclones, 1906-2006, Marjetta L. Puotinen Jan 2007

Impact Of Data Uncertainty On The Spatio-Temporal Distribution Of Australian Cyclones, 1906-2006, Marjetta L. Puotinen

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Tropical cyclones (known elsewhere as hurricanes or typhoons) regularly track through Australia’s northern coastal regions (Figure 1).

Data documenting the basic characteristics of cyclones in the Australian region is available from the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) as early as 1906. This data set (freely available in ASCII format at http://www.bom.gov.au) records some 41 attributes (most of which are not complete for the entire time series) for 22,645 individual cyclone eye positions. Because cyclones can cause considerable impact to both marine and terrestrial environments, data sets such as this are widely used to reconstruct past cyclone conditions (for example, see Berz …