TC Rainfall Inundation System#

A model to estimate rainfall caused by the action of tropical cyclones (TCs) according to atmospheric, geographical, and oceanic variables has been developed, as well as a metamodel to obtain its associated flooding extents.

The methodology is composed by a 4 steps procedure:

  1. Develop a TC Rainfall Model based on historic rainfall from GPM and historic TC tracks from IBTrACS, that allows to obtain the hyetograph for each of the basins.

  2. Download forecast/reforecast TC tracks from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC)

  3. Based on a metamodel, built with representative hyetographs for each basin run with Lisflood-FP, the flooding extents can be obtained.

  4. Using RiskScape the damage associated to the maximum flooding depths can be obtained.

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