Appendix F
GLOSSARY
A large number of alphabetic abbreviations are frequently used in the text of this report because
of the rather unwieldy descriptive names applied to specialized project equipment. Furthermore,
certain common words are used in a specialized or restrictive sense when discussing the phenomena connected with the underwater events. For greater convenience, these terms are assembled
and briefly defined here. When additional discussion of the word or abbreviation appears in the
text, a section reference is given parenthetically following the definition. The glossary is preceded by the key used in the summary presentation of the gamma records in Sections 3.3.2 and

3.4.1.

KEY FOR MASTER TABLE (TABLE 3.11) AND FOR INDIVIDUAL STATION DATA
(Figures 3.66 through 3.96)
1.

Gamma dose rate record: gamma dose rate versus time corrected for instrument response;

type of detector indicated. Normalized rate curve for instrument shown from 1 minute until end
of record.
2. Transit plot: plan view of various surge boundaries at beginning and end of transit.
Boundaries shown for times indicated. Letter designators for boundaries same as those given
in tabulated section of this key.
3.

Tabular data: same key applicable also for master table (Table 3.11).

General: letter designators and other general symbols used in the table:

- = no data available

() = value is estimated

CA = point of closest surge approach
cale = calculated data
CR = point where B, recedes

DD = drifting
ED = inner edge influences
EX = expanded surge boundary
OL # station outside lagoon
OV = coracle overturned
obs = observed data
poss = possibly
msg = observation expected but not observed
Records:

[ ] = see notes for boundaryplot

msk = observation masked by a concurrent event

n.a. = not applicable, occurrence is unlikely
NC = not central decrement

neg = negative value
RF = reef station
sat = instrument saturated
WW = interference due to white water
XTP = extrapolated data

records given are complete unless parenthetically indicated or modified as stated.

Modifying conditions: basis of estimated time of overturn given in parenthesis: (no 2nd rise) =
the instrument failed to record the passage of the upwind surge accurately; (sec-GITR track) =
the secondary GITR tracked the std-GITR until the time of the estimate; GITR OK = std-GITR

was not damaged by overturn; GITR damaged = std-GITR damaged by overturn.
Types of transit are illustrated in Figure 3.63; the letter designators used are:

SN = skirting transit, an upwind event

TN = total envelopment, an upwind event
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C = central transit

D = distant transit

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