Cultural services are ecosystem services that contribute to humans' emotional or social well-being, such as ecosystem components with spiritual significance, ecosystem components that contribute to aesthetic enjoyment, or ecosystems that offer options for recreation in nature. (BonaRes project)
A perennial mass of ice, and possibly firn and snow, originating on the land surface by the recrystallisation of snow and showing evidence of past or present flow. A glacier typically gains mass by accumulation of snow, and loses mass by melting and ice discharge into the sea or a lake if the glacier terminates in a body of water. Land ice masses of continental size (>50 000 km2) are referred to as ice sheets. (IPCC. 2019. Special Report on Climate Change and Land - SRCCL (09/2019) https://apps.ipcc.ch/glossary/)
The temperature corresponding to saturation (100 percent relative humidity) for a given absolute humidity at constant pressure. (Good Practices for the Feed Industry, FAO Animal Production and Health Manual No. 9, FAO, 2010 (http://www.fao.org/3/i1379e/i1379e.pdf).)
Resolution is the smallest incremental value that can be measured. (Richard G. Axell, Chapter 12 - Clinical Measurement, Editor(s): Azzam Taktak, Paul Ganney, Dave Long, Paul White, Clinical Engineering, Academic Press, 2014, Pages 211-217, ISBN 9780123969613, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-396961-3.00012-3)
Equine viral arteritis (EVA) is a contagious viral disease of equids caused by equine arteritis virus (EAV), an RNA virus classified in the genus, Arterivirus, family Arteriviridae. Equine arteritis virus is found in horse populations in many countries world-wide. (https://www.woah.org/fileadmin/Home/fr/Health_standards/tahm/3.05.10_EVA.pdf)
Domestic work is the housework and gardening undertaken by employees who may or may not be family members to facilitate the running of domestic life and the meeting of personal needs. (ILO ABC of women workers’ rights and gender equality Geneva, International Labour Office, 2000Woman worker, women’s rights, equal employment opportunity, ILO Convention, ILO Recommendation, comment. 14.04.2ISBN 978-92-2-119622-8 https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---gender/documents/publication/wcms_087314.pdf)
The climate system is the highly complex system consisting of five major components: the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, the land surface, and the biosphere, and the interactions between them. (TRG(33)/GICM, FAO, 2004; Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability; UNEP – WHO.)
The deep layer is the lowest layer in the ocean, existing below the thermocline and above the seabed, at a depth of 1000 fathoms (1800 m) or more. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_sea)
Water of such depth that surface waves are noticeably affected by bottom topography. Typically, this implies a water depth equivalent to less than half the wavelength. (CoastalWiki.2018. Shallow water https://www.coastalwiki.org/wiki/Shallow_water)
A mudflow or mud flow is a form of mass wasting involving "very rapid to extremely rapid surging flow" of debris that has become partially or fully liquified by the addition of significant amounts of water to the source material (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudflow)
Science that studies the mutual interaction between the hydrological cycle and ecosystems. Ecohydrology uses the understanding of relationships between hydrological and biological processes at different scales to improve water security, enhance biodiversity and further opportunities for sustainable development, by lessening ecological threats and maximizing greater harmony within catchment processes. (UNESCO Thesaurus http://vocabularies.unesco.org/thesaurus/concept17104 and UNESCO, 2021. https://events.unesco.org/event?id=3930972940&lang=1033)
Pollution resulting from any confined, discrete source, such as a pipe, ditch, tunnel, well, container, concentrated animalfeeding operation, or floating craft. (IPCC. 2001. Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report. Annexes. https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/annex.pdf)
A multi-agent system consists of multiple decision-making agents which interact in a shared environment to achieve common or conflicting goals. (https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/interest-groups/multi-agent-systems)
