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The role of data: Key to understanding climate risk
Navigating global flood risk in a non-stationary world – A primer for actuaries
Metadata — Fathom’s first-of-its-kind assessment of flood risk data certainty
Climate resilience in fast growth markets and the power of data – Aug 7
Swiss Re acquires Fathom, global leader in water risk intelligence
Introducing FABDEM+ – the new standard for a globally consistent and accurate digital elevation model
New US Flood Map – The most complete and technologically advanced flood map for the United States
Fathom Risk Scores – Powerful flood risk metrics for any global location, under any climate scenario
Flood risk as a measure of asset value, panel webinar.
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Fundamental limits to flood inundation modeling
In this article, Fathom’s Chairman Professor Paul Bates explores the limits to flood inundation modeling, and explains why it’s still difficult to accurately predict flood hazards at the scale of individual buildings.
Hyper-resolution PCR-GLOBWB: opportunities and challenges from refining model spatial resolution to 1 km over the European continent
- Hoch, J.,
- Sutanudjaja, E.,
- Wanders, N.,
- Beek, R.,
- Bierkens, M.
For the first time, researchers have applied the global hydrological model (GHM) PCR-GLOBWB at 1 km spatial resolution over the entire European continent.
A climate conditioned catastrophe risk model for UK flooding
New research from Bates et al. describes the creation of a transparent flood model for the UK that simulates pluvial, fluvial and coastal flood risks for 10 different return periods.
Co-occurring wintertime flooding and extreme wind over Europe, from daily to seasonal timescales
- Bloomfield, H.,
- J.Hillier, J.,
- Griffin, A.,
- A.L.Kay, A.,
- Shaffrey, L.,
- Panosi, F.,
- R.James, R.,
- Kumar, D.,
- Champion, A.,
- Bates, P.
Why and when do floods and extreme wind occur together? Will climate change make this happen more frequently? This research sets out to understand the correlations between flood and wind extremes and the impact they have on risk.
Bare-earth DEM generation from ArcticDEM and its use in flood simulation
- Liu, Y.,
- Bates, P.,
- Neal, J.
New research tests ways to generate bare-earth data from ArcticDEM, one of the next-generation digital elevation models that could become an alternative to radar-based DEMs.
Caravan – A global community dataset for large-sample hydrology
- Kratzert, F.,
- Nearing, G.,
- Addor, N.,
- Erickson, T.,
- Gauch, M.,
- Gilon, O.,
- Gudmundsson, L.,
- Hassidim, A.,
- Klotz, D.,
- Nevo, S.,
- Shalev, G.,
- Matias, Y.
Published in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Data, the paper outlines the team’s vision for Caravan to expand, evolve and provide “the most direct path” to a truly open global hydrological dataset.