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The secretariat of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction launches an on-line game aimed at teaching children how to build safer villages and cities against disasters. Disaster prevention awareness on a grand scale. This game for the UN ISDR tackles the very real issue around the World of saving lives and reducing the financial impact that natural hazards cause when they turn into disasters. The secretariat of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction launches an on-line game aimed at teaching children how to build safer villages and cities against disasters. Disaster prevention awareness on a grand scale. This game for the UN ISDR tackles the very real issue around the World of saving lives and reducing the financial impact that natural hazards cause when they turn into disasters.

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A natural warming process of the earth. When the sun's energy reaches the earth some of it is reflected back to space and the rest is absorbed. The absorbed energy warms the earth's surface which then emits heat energy back toward space as longwave radiation. This outgoing longwave radiation is partially trapped by greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and water vapor which then radiate the energy in all directions, warming the earth's surface and atmosphere. Without these greenhouse gases the earth's average surface temperature would be about 33 degrees Celsius cooler. A temperature inversion occurs when the temperature of air increases with increasing height.

Generally the temperature decreases with height in the lower atmosphere, called the troposphere. Low-level inversions generally form on clear calm nights due to cooling of the ground through loss of heat by radiation. The warm air on the ground is replaced by cooler air at the surface resulting in a temperature inversion.

The inversion creates a boundary layer that restricts vertical motion and mixing of air between the two air masses either side. Low-level inversions act like a lid to trap pollutants resulting in smog over our cities. One of the several gases that make up the Earth's atmosphere. It is the triatomic* form of oxygen and makes up approximately one part in three million of all of the gases in the atmosphere. If all the ozone contained in the atmosphere from the ground level up to a height of 60 km could be assembled at the earth's surface, it would comprise a layer of gas only about 3 millimeters thick, and weigh some 3000 million tonnes. Ozone is toxic at high concentrations because it reacts strongly with other molecules.

* Each ozone molecule is made up of three oxygen atoms. Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid (e.g. Rain, drizzle) or solid (e.g. Hail, snow), that fall from a cloud or group of clouds and reach the ground.

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(See Drizzle, Rain). Duration of precipitation • Brief: Short duration. • Intermittent: Precipitation which ceases at times. • Occasional: Precipitation which while not frequent, is recurrent. • Frequent: Showers occurring regularly and often.

• Continuous: Precipitation which does not cease, or ceases only briefly. • Periods of rain: Rain is expected to fall most of the time, but there will be breaks. Intensity of precipitation • Slight or light: • Rain: Individual drops easily identified, puddles form slowly, small streams may flow in gutters. • Drizzle: Can be felt on the face but is not visible. Produces little runoff from roads or roofs. Generally visibility is reduced, but not less than 1000 m.

• Snow: Small sparse flakes. Generally visibility is reduced, but not less than 1000 m. • Hail: Sparse hailstones of small size, often mixed with rain.

• Moderate: • Rain: Rapidly forming puddles, down pipes flowing freely, some spray visible over hard surface. • Drizzle: Window and road surfaces streaming with moisture. Visibility generally between 400 and 1000 m.

• Snow: Large numerous flakes and visiblity generally between 400-1000 m. • Hail: particles numerous enough to whiten the ground. • Heavy: • Rain: falls in sheets, misty spray over hard surfaces, may cause roaring noise on roof. • Drizzle: Visibility reduced to less than 400 m. • Snow: Numerous flakes of all sizes. Visiblity generally reduced below 400 m.

• Hail: A proportion of the hailstones exceed 6 mm diameter. Distribution of showers and precipitation • Few: Indicating timing not an area. • Isolated: Showers which are well separated in space during a given period.

• Local: Restricted to relatively small areas. • Patchy: Occurring irregularly over an area. • Scattered: Irregularly distributed over an area. Showers which while not widespread, can occur anywhere in an area.

Implies a slightly greater incidence than isolated. • Sporadic: scattered or dispersed in respect of locality or local distribution. Charaterised by occasional or isolated occurrence. • Widespread: Occurring extensively throughout an area. These forecasts use percentages, such as 60% (60 percent or 60 chances in every 100). This kind of forecast is usually based on how often something has happened in the past.

For instance, if the chance of getting more than average rainfall if certain things happen is said to be 60%, then in 60 out of 100 of past years when things were similar it was higher than usual but in 40 out of 100 it was below. High percentages do not mean something will happen, but that scientists think it is it is likely or probable. • Peak Wave Period: Period in seconds between the swells of the primary swell component. The larger the time difference, the greater the amount of energy associated with the swells.

• Primary Swell: Height and direction of the swell with the highest energy component. This is sometimes referred to as the dominant swell.

• Sea waves: waves generated by the wind blowing at the time, and in the recent past, in the area of observation. • Secondary Swell: Height and direction of the swell with the second highest energy component. • Swell Period: See Peak Wave Period. • Swell waves: waves which have travelled into the area of observation after having been generated by previous winds in other areas. These waves may travel thousands of kilometres from their origin before dying away.

There may be swell present even if the wind is calm and there are no 'sea' waves. • Wave period: the average time interval between passages of successive crests (or troughs) of waves. • Wave Height: Generally taken as the height difference between the wave crest and the preceding trough. • Wave Length: The mean horizontal distance between successive crests (or troughs) of a wave pattern. A local onshore wind.

Cooler air from over the sea flows onto the shore to replace the warm air rising over the land. On sunny days the land heats up more quickly, and to a greater extent, than the sea. The air in contact with the land warms and expands and the resulting changes in the pressure and temperature differences and distributions cause the sea breeze circulation. At night, when the land cools more quickly, and to a greater extent, than the sea, the reverse land breeze circulation is set up.

A temperature inversion occurs when the temperature of air increases with increasing height. Generally the temperature decreases with height in the lower atmosphere, called the troposphere. Low-level inversions generally form on clear calm nights due to cooling of the ground through loss of heat by radiation. The warm air on the ground is replaced by cooler air at the surface resulting in a temperature inversion. The inversion creates a boundary layer that restricts vertical motion and mixing of air between the two air masses either side. Low-level inversions act like a lid to trap pollutants resulting in smog over our cities. East to southeasterly winds (in the southern hemisphere) which affect tropical and subtropical regions, including the northern areas of Australia.

During the monsoon season in northern Australia, the easterly trade winds are replaced by moist northwesterly (monsoonal) winds from the Indian Ocean and southern Asian ocean waters. As mentioned above, the trade winds in the southern hemisphere are east to southeasterly in direction. In the northern hemisphere however, the trade winds are east to northeasterly in direction. It means that in both hemispheres, they tend to blow from the east to the west and towards the equator. Sometimes the trade winds will just be called 'easterly' to avoid having to specify the hemisphere.

A tropical cyclone is an intense low pressure system which forms over warm ocean waters in Queensland, The Northern Territory and Western Australia. A tropical cyclone usually brings strong winds and extremely heavy rain. It can also bring unusually high sea levels (storm surges) in areas near the coast. A tropical cyclone can cause widespread damage as a result of the strong wind, flooding (caused by either heavy rainfall or ocean storm surges).It can cause landslides in hilly areas as a result of heavy rainfall and saturated soil. If there are winds above 117 km/h (63 knots) it will be called a severe tropical cyclone. (NOTE: A tropical cyclone may also be known (in other parts of the world) as a tropical storm. In the north western Pacific severe tropical cyclones are known as 'typhoons' and in the northeast Pacific and Atlantic/Caribbean they are called 'hurricanes'.).

A trough of low pressure is an elongated area where atmospheric pressure is low relative to its immediate surroundings. A trough of low pressure is sometimes indicated on the synoptic chart by a centre line or trough line denoted by a dashed line e.g. The trough line often extends outward from a low pressure centre, or an enclosed area of relatively low pressure. When moving across a trough from one side of a trough line to another, atmospheric pressure decreases as you approach the trough line. The atmospheric pressure increases again after you cross the trough line and move away.

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A change in wind direction will generally be observed as you cross from one side of the trough to the other. Compare with the definition for a Ridge and a Low. The name Tsunami is used to describe a series of waves travelling across the ocean. These waves can measure up to hundreds of kilometres between wave crests in the deep ocean.

They are very fast moving, and unlike normal waves, affect the movement of the water all the way to the sea floor. They tend to get higher as they get closer to land and, if high enough when they reach the land, can travel far inland and cause very serious damage. Earthquakes are one of the things that cause tsunami. They can also be caused by underwater landslides, volcanoes, land slipping into the ocean, meteors, or even the weather when the atmospheric pressure changes very rapidly. The most common cause of tsunami is an under sea earthquake with a sudden change in a section of the earth's crust under or near the ocean. This rise or fall in sea level makes a tsunami wave. The atmospheric pressure which is exerted by water vapour (water in its gaseous state).

It is one way of measuring the humidity of the air. At a given temperature, an increase of water vapour in the air corresponds to an increase in the humidity of the air. Water vapour is supplied to the atmosphere by evaporation of water from oceans, lakes, wet land surfaces or from vegetation (transpiration).

Water vapour absorbs the Sun's radiation. As a result, the sunlight received at the Earth's surface will be more intense in a drier atmosphere. Wet-bulb temperature is measured using a standard mercury-in-glass thermometer, with the thermometer bulb wrapped in muslin, which is kept wet. The evaporation of water from the thermometer has a cooling effect, so the temperature indicated by the wet bulb thermometer is less than the temperature indicated by a dry-bulb (normal, unmodified) thermometer. The rate of evaporation from the wet-bulb thermometer depends on the humidity of the air - evaporation is slower when the air is already full of water vapour For this reason, the difference in the temperatures indicated by the two thermometers gives a measure of atmospheric humidity. Usually only one wind speed is given in a weather forecast, unless it is expected to be very gusty.

For instance, fresh, gusty southwest winds means that wind speed will generally be between 17 and 21 knots (or about 30 to 38 kph) and the mean wind direction will be from the southwest, but that there will also be much stronger gusts. • Gust: a gust is any sudden increase of wind usually for only a few seconds.

• Squall: A sudden strong wind that rises up and may blow hard a number of times before it dies down. • Surface Wind: wind speed and direction measured at 10 metres above the earth's surface. The surface wind is what causes waves on the ocean. Large swells can be caused by strong winds in intense storms.

Disaster prevention awareness on a grand scale. This game for the UN ISDR tackles the very real issue around the World of saving lives and reducing the financial impact that natural hazards cause when they turn into disasters. The aim of this game is simply to raise awareness of how disasters affect people every day and how often very simple measures can save many lives.

Whether you call it serious gaming or ‘edutainment’, projects such as these are tough to get balanced, as too many facts turn people off and too much ‘fun’ lessens the gravity of the subject matter. Aimed primarily at secondary level education, the game is delivered using flash 7 via the web to allow access to as many people around the World as possible. The whole project is XML driven so that by October it will be translated into the UN’s five major languages to broaden it’s appeal and reach even further. There was a vast amount of information to absorb and try to distill into a ‘Sim City’ style game in such a way that players aren’t bombarded with facts but can discover information as they try to achieve their goals. Playerthree designed and built the whole thing, including the associated website to provide support, information and score tables for the game. The ISDR’s role within the UN is to raise awareness of disaster prevention and help save lives using an online game to appeal to a young yet influencial audience is strong recognition of how people around the globe are spending their time online.