Describing Storm Xaver in disaster terms

Rucińska, Dorota

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.11.012

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“…In the northeastern Atlantic region (Figures S14 and S22), the spatial footprint of the storm surge caused by Extratropical Cyclone Ophelia (in 2017; Dullaart et al, 2020) is represented by Cluster 14. The spatial footprint of Cyclone Xaver (in 2013), which caused extreme storm surges in eastern United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, and southern Scandinavia (Rucińska, 2019), is reflected in Cluster 5. Our sensitivity analysis (Figures S28 to S30) highlights that the spatial footprints are not biased toward these individual extreme events; instead, it indicates that many other events had similar footprints but were smaller in height and intensity (while still exceeding the 95% or 99% percentile thresholds) and therefore did not cause significant damages.…”

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Spatial Footprints of Storm Surges Along the Global Coastlines

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We perform the first global analysis of the spatial footprints of storm surges, using observed and simulated storm surge data. Three different techniques are applied to quantify the spatial footprints: clustering analysis, percentage of co‐occurrence, and joint probability analysis. The capability of the simulated data to represent the observed storm surge footprints is demonstrated. Results lead to the identification of coastline stretches prone to be impacted simultaneously by the same storm surge events. The spatial footprint sizes differ around the globe, partially conditioned by the geography of the coastline, that is, more irregular coastlines consist of a larger number of different storm surge clusters with varying footprint sizes. For the northwestern Atlantic, spatial footprints of storm surges vary when specifically accounting for tropical cyclones, using storm track information in the storm surge simulations. Our results provide important new insights into the spatial footprints of storm surges at the global scale and will help to facilitate improvements in how coastal flood risk is identified, assessed, and managed, by taking these spatial features into account.

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Spatial Footprints of Storm Surges Along the Global Coastlines

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“…One senses the legitimacy and progressive openness to the mutual exchange of data, information and knowledge, which should be interpreted as a testimony that a common focus on insuring the security of the state and its citizens, regardless of the circumstances, is emerging. This also includes civil planning implemented as part of the crisis management system, critical infrastructure protection standards, developing problems of business continuity management, as well as scientific and didactic activities [11,13,27].…”

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Challenges in Implementing Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in Poland

Goniewicz

Burkle

2019

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Currently, weather conditions and extreme weather are becoming more frequent and more intense. Along with climate change, the vulnerability of society and individual regions to the risk of various types of threats also increases. The objectives of “The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030”, are the first global political frameworks of the United Nations program designed for the period post-2015. The original priority objectives of the Framework are: Understanding disaster risk, strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk, investing in disaster risk reduction for resilience, and enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response, and to “Build Back Better” in recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction. The provisions contained in the document are an essential step towards building global political coherence with an apparent reference to health, development, and climate change. The article is briefly reporting current Disaster Risk Reduction related programs and policies in Poland, contributions as part of The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction implementation, and its challenges.

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“…The coinciding surge and tide created "record breaking water levels for large parts of the southwestern German North Sea coastline" (Dangendorf et al, 2016), which boosted the estimate of the water level with a 1:200 year probability exceedance by 40 cm. Although the storm led to large direct damage in United Kingdom (UK), Netherlands, Germany and Denmark (Wadey et al, 2015;Rucińska, 2019), the considerable improvements in coastal protection and disaster risk reduction management significantly reduced the total damage and number of people affected compared to a similar storm in 1953 (Spencer et al, 2015;Wadey et al, 2015). Both the large anomaly of the storm and the complex cascade of impacts (particularly relating to the macroeconomic losses from long-term business interruption, damage to transportation networks and other critical infrastructure) create deep uncertainty that is difficult to assess using probabilistic approaches.…”

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