CLIMADA: an open-source climate risk assessment model. The latest developments!

Do you want to translate your work on extreme weather into human and economic impacts? Do you want to investigate the statistical risk from climate change to your region, country or planet? Do you need to identify vulnerable populations and find the most effective climate adaptation measures?

The CLIMADA platform (CLIMate ADAptation) is built to support these analyses. The model is an open source, globally consistent, fully probabilistic risk assessment tool. It is designed with both academics and decision-makers in mind and is used in international financial planning, regional climate adaptation projects and impact forecasting.

CLIMADA combines hazard, vulnerability and exposure data to produce risk assessments, allowing you to supply any (or none) of the data required. The model includes event data for hazards including tropical storm wind and surge, windstorms, earthquake, flood, drought, wildfire and agricultural risk, at different stages of maturity. It includes the LitPop exposure model for estimating economic and population exposure, and impact/vulnerability functions to combine them with hazards. It is suitable for case studies and climate studies.

In this session we will present the model, highlight recent additions, and discuss our work supporting users in government, industry and the third sector. We want to hear questions from potential new users and collaborators and hope to spark conversations about new data sources, improved methodologies and integrations with other workflows.