Articles | Volume 16, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1189-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1189-2016
Research article
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25 May 2016
Research article |  | 25 May 2016

Damage functions for climate-related hazards: unification and uncertainty analysis

Boris F. Prahl, Diego Rybski, Markus Boettle, and Jürgen P. Kropp

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Damage functions are an essential tool for vulnerability assessment and the quantification of disaster loss. They are often tailored to specific hazards and regions, which complicates knowledge transfer between different hazards and places. In our work, we unify approaches for climate-related hazards, e.g. for storms and coastal floods. A unified damage function is embedded in an uncertainty framework, where we identify the dominating sources of uncertainty on local and regional scales.
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