The RISC-KIT storm impact database: A new tool in support of DRR

Abstract

This paper presents a new storm impact database for European coastlines that facilitates the upload, browsing and download of a broad range of physical and impact information related to historical and recent marine storm events. The database is transparent in terms of open access to raw data and metadata, makes use of version control systems through the OpenEarth repository and promotes the use of international standards. A total of 298 storm events are currently stored in the database from the ten RISC-KIT case study sites, including historical events dating back to the sixteenth century. To demonstrate the application of the tool, examples of typical event data contained within the database as well as the ability of the database to identify impacts of events across regions are presented. It is envisaged that this database will expand beyond the ten case study sites, with the aim of promoting and greatly improving the collection and reporting of extreme hydro-meteorological events across Europe into the future.

Linking source with consequences of coastal storm impacts for climate change and risk reduction scenarios for Mediterranean sandy beaches

“…This has been illustrated here by considering the change in estimated risks due to SLR in Tordera Delta. This approach can also be applied to assess the effects of consecutive storm impacts (Coco et al, 2014) by using estimated post-storm bed levels as pre-storm morphology for given storm combinations. Once this extra information is included in the BN, the uncertainty associated to future shoreline configurations on assessed risks can be analysed.…”

“…Poelhekke et al, 2016;Plomaritis et al, 2018;Jäger et al, 2018). The storm events were selected based on the information available for each study site through the RISC-KIT WEB-GIS impact-oriented database (Ciavola et al, 2018; http://risckit.cloudapp.net/risckit/#/), which provided storm characteristics and socioeconomic impacts of the events. In addition, time series of waves (either bulk Hs, Tp and mean direction, or spectrum) and water levels during each storm event were used when this information was available.…”

“…This simple approach was possible based on the assumption that the information derived from the RISC-KIT Database can be considered representative of the storm in the domain, as collected from different sources (e.g. offshore buoys, harbours' tide gauges, newspa-pers) along the Emilia-Romagna coast (Perini et al, 2011;Ciavola et al, 2018). The model was qualitatively validated using observed inundation extension and profile beach response of the February 2015 event (Perini et al, 2015;Trembanis et al, 2017).…”

Linking source with consequences of coastal storm impacts for climate change and risk reduction scenarios for Mediterranean sandy beaches

“…offshore buoys, harbours' tide gauges, 30 newspapers, etc.) along the Emilia-Romagna coast (Perini et al, 2011;Ciavola et al, 2017). The model was qualitatively validated with the February 2015 event Trembanis et al, n.d…”

“…Then, recorded storms belonging to each bin class were selected for use in the analysis. The storm events were selected based on the information available for each study site through the RISC-KIT WEB-GIS impact-oriented database (Ciavola et al, 2017;10 http://risckit.cloudapp.net/risckit/#/), which provided synthetic information on the physical parameters (measured or assessed at the regional level) and socio-economic impacts of the events. In addition, time series were used to characterise all events for which this information was available.…”