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Tropical cyclone Gita wind field

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Tropical cyclone Gita impacted the Kingdom of Tonga in February 2018, causing significant damage across the main island of Tongatapu. This dataset is a best estimate of the maximum local gust wind speed across Tongatapu, based on the best-available track information, elevation and land cover data. The data represents the maximum 0.2 second, 10-metre above ground level wind speed at (approximately) 25 metre horizontal resolution. The wind field was generated using: Geoscience Australia's Tropical Cyclone Risk Model - https://github.com/GeoscienceAustralia/tcrm Wind Multipliers code - https://github.com/GeoscienceAusralia/Wind_Multipliers TC Gita track was sourced from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (http://www.metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/jtwc.html)

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Title Tropical cyclone Gita wind field
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/63415a86-94e0-449c-a11e-7eb9b2cdd1ab
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 09/02/2018 - 17/02/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        -175.364,
        -21.28
      ],
      [
        -175.024,
        -21.28
      ],
      [
        -175.024,
        -21.05
      ],
      [
        -175.364,
        -21.05
      ],
      [
        -175.364,
        -21.28
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Tropical cyclone Gita wind field". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/tropical-cyclone-gita-wind-field