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Welcome to the climada wiki!

climada is the open source natural catastrophe model, that implements the ECA methodology, especially steps 2 and 3.

• Probabilistic natural catastrophe damage model, that also calculates averted damage (benefit) thanks to adaptation measures of any kind (from grey to green infrastructure, behavioural, etc.).

• climada is based on four elements

  • Assets (i.e. geographical distribution of people, houses, activities, public infrastructure)
  • Damage functions (relating impact to economic consequence)
  • Hazards (currently implemented are: tropical cyclones, storm surge, torrential rain, earthquake and volcano on a global yet local (1km) resolution, plus winter storm in Europe)
  • Adaptation measures (i.e. improved building codes, seawall, sandbags, reefs, mangroves)

• climada is running in MATLAB®, which is a numerical computing environment, and GNU OCTAVE, the open source alternative.