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Tropical Cyclones, Hurricanes & Typhoons

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Wildfires, Bushfires, Peat Fires, Coal Seam Fires, Postfire Debris Flows

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Precipitation

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Sea Level Rise (SLR)

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Seiches (Lake Tsunamis)

The term was promoted by the Swiss hydrologist François-Alphonse Forel in 1890, who was the first to make scientific observations of the effect in Lake Geneva, Switzerland. The word originates in a Swiss French dialect word that means "to sway back and forth", which had apparently long been used in the region to describe oscillations in alpine lakes. Read more...