Concept information
Preferred term
natural phenomenon
Definition
- A natural phenomenon is an observable event which is not man-made. Examples include: sunrise, weather, fog, thunder, tornadoes; biological processes, decomposition, germination; physical processes, wave propagation, erosion; tidal flow, and natural disasters such as electromagnetic pulses, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes and earthquakes. (Adapted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_phenomena)
Narrower concepts
- accretion
- accumulation
- alteration
- astronomical phenomenon
- atmospherical phenomenon
- biogeochemical cycle
- biological phenomenon
- calcification
- carbonate preservation
- climatic phenomenon
- desertification
- drainage
- drastic change
- dust emission
- emersion
- encrustation
- energy transport
- erosion
- evaporation process
- feedback mechanism
- fertilization
- forest clearance
- gas emission
- geochemical cycle
- geological phenomenon
- glacial phenomenon
- global change
- hot spot
- hydrological phenomenon
- ice-atmosphere interaction
- ice-ocean interaction
- ice-soil interaction
- land-atmosphere interaction
- land-ice interaction
- land-ocean interaction
- marine transgression
- maturation
- natural deforestation
- natural pollution
- nucleation
- oceanic phenomenon
- pedogenesis
- plume
- poleward shift
- primary driver
- salinization
- sedimentary phenomenon
- soil-atmosphere interaction
- soil-vegetation-atmosphere interaction
- tectonic phenomenon
- temperature effect
- water cycle
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/QX8-D3V8SP48-S
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