TY  - JOUR
A1  - Prahl, Boris F.
A1  - Boettle, Markus
A1  - Costa, Luís Fílípe Carvalho da
A1  - Kropp, Jürgen
A1  - Rybski, Diego
T1  - Damage and protection cost curves for coastal floods within the 600 largest European cities
JF  - Scientific Data
N2  - The economic assessment of the impacts of storm surges and sea-level rise in coastal cities requires high-level information on the damage and protection costs associated with varying flood heights. We provide a systematically and consistently calculated dataset of macroscale damage and protection cost curves for the 600 largest European coastal cities opening the perspective for a wide range of applications. Offering the first comprehensive dataset to include the costs of dike protection, we provide the underpinning information to run comparative assessments of costs and benefits of coastal adaptation. Aggregate cost curves for coastal flooding at the city-level are commonly regarded as by-products of impact assessments and are generally not published as a standalone dataset. Hence, our work also aims at initiating a more critical discussion on the availability and derivation of cost curves.
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.34
SN  - 2052-4463
VL  - 5
PB  - Nature Publ. Group
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Prahl, Boris F.
A1  - Boettle, Markus
A1  - Costa, Luís Fílípe Carvalho da
A1  - Kropp, Jürgen
A1  - Rybski, Diego
T1  - Damage and protection cost curves for coastal floods within the 600 largest European cities
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - The economic assessment of the impacts of storm surges and sea-level rise in coastal cities requires high-level information on the damage and protection costs associated with varying flood heights. We provide a systematically and consistently calculated dataset of macroscale damage and protection cost curves for the 600 largest European coastal cities opening the perspective for a wide range of applications. Offering the first comprehensive dataset to include the costs of dike protection, we provide the underpinning information to run comparative assessments of costs and benefits of coastal adaptation. Aggregate cost curves for coastal flooding at the city-level are commonly regarded as by-products of impact assessments and are generally not published as a standalone dataset. Hence, our work also aims at initiating a more critical discussion on the availability and derivation of cost curves.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 938 
KW  - sea-level rise
KW  - topographic data
KW  - climate-change
KW  - adaptation
KW  - scale
KW  - exposure
KW  - model
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-459672
SN  - 1866-8372
IS  - 938
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Boettle, Markus
A1  - Rybski, Diego
A1  - Kropp, Jürgen
T1  - Quantifying the effect of sea level rise and flood defence
BT  - a point process perspective on coastal flood damage
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - In contrast to recent advances in projecting sea levels, estimations about the economic impact of sea level rise are vague. Nonetheless, they are of great importance for policy making with regard to adaptation and greenhouse-gas mitigation. Since the damage is mainly caused by extreme events, we propose a stochastic framework to estimate the monetary losses from coastal floods in a confined region. For this purpose, we follow a Peak-over-Threshold approach employing a Poisson point process and the Generalised Pareto Distribution. By considering the effect of sea level rise as well as potential adaptation scenarios on the involved parameters, we are able to study the development of the annual damage. An application to the city of Copenhagen shows that a doubling of losses can be expected from a mean sea level increase of only 11 cm. In general, we find that for varying parameters the expected losses can be well approximated by one of three analytical expressions depending on the extreme value parameters. These findings reveal the complex interplay of the involved parameters and allow conclusions of fundamental relevance. For instance, we show that the damage typically increases faster than the sea level rise itself. This in turn can be of great importance for the assessment of sea level rise impacts on the global scale. Our results are accompanied by an assessment of uncertainty, which reflects the stochastic nature of extreme events. While the absolute value of uncertainty about the flood damage increases with rising mean sea levels, we find that it decreases in relation to the expected damage.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 559 
KW  - climate-change
KW  - North-Sea
KW  - extremes
KW  - costs
KW  - 21st-Century
KW  - adaptation
KW  - statistics
KW  - impacts
KW  - trends
KW  - cities
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412405
SN  - 1866-8372
IS  - 559
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Prahl, Boris F.
A1  - Rybski, Diego
A1  - Boettle, Markus
A1  - Kropp, Jürgen
T1  - Damage functions for climate-related hazards
BT  - unification and uncertainty analysis
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Most climate change impacts manifest in the form of natural hazards. Damage assessment typically relies on damage functions that translate the magnitude of extreme events to a quantifiable damage. In practice, the availability of damage functions is limited due to a lack of data sources and a lack of understanding of damage processes. The study of the characteristics of damage functions for different hazards could strengthen the theoretical foundation of damage functions and support their development and validation. Accordingly, we investigate analogies of damage functions for coastal flooding and for wind storms and identify a unified approach. This approach has general applicability for granular portfolios and may also be applied, for example, to heat-related mortality. Moreover, the unification enables the transfer of methodology between hazards and a consistent treatment of uncertainty. This is demonstrated by a sensitivity analysis on the basis of two simple case studies (for coastal flood and storm damage). The analysis reveals the relevance of the various uncertainty sources at varying hazard magnitude and on both the microscale and the macroscale level. Main findings are the dominance of uncertainty from the hazard magnitude and the persistent behaviour of intrinsic uncertainties on both scale levels. Our results shed light on the general role of uncertainties and provide useful insight for the application of the unified approach.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 534 
KW  - coastal flood damage
KW  - sea-level rise
KW  - of-the-art
KW  - sensitivity-analysis
KW  - natural hazards
KW  - storm damage
KW  - model
KW  - wind
KW  - vulnerability
KW  - buildings
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-410184
SN  - 1866-8372
IS  - 534
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Boettle, Markus
A1  - Rybski, Diego
A1  - Kropp, Jürgen
T1  - Quantifying the effect of sea level rise and flood defence-a point process perspective on coastal flood damage
JF  - Natural hazards and earth system sciences
N2  - In contrast to recent advances in projecting sea levels, estimations about the economic impact of sea level rise are vague. Nonetheless, they are of great importance for policy making with regard to adaptation and greenhouse-gas mitigation. Since the damage is mainly caused by extreme events, we propose a stochastic framework to estimate the monetary losses from coastal floods in a confined region. For this purpose, we follow a Peak-over-Threshold approach employing a Poisson point process and the Generalised Pareto Distribution. By considering the effect of sea level rise as well as potential adaptation scenarios on the involved parameters, we are able to study the development of the annual damage. An application to the city of Copenhagen shows that a doubling of losses can be expected from a mean sea level increase of only 11 cm. In general, we find that for varying parameters the expected losses can be well approximated by one of three analytical expressions depending on the extreme value parameters. These findings reveal the complex interplay of the involved parameters and allow conclusions of fundamental relevance. For instance, we show that the damage typically increases faster than the sea level rise itself. This in turn can be of great importance for the assessment of sea level rise impacts on the global scale. Our results are accompanied by an assessment of uncertainty, which reflects the stochastic nature of extreme events. While the absolute value of uncertainty about the flood damage increases with rising mean sea levels, we find that it decreases in relation to the expected damage.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-559-2016
SN  - 1561-8633
VL  - 16
SP  - 559
EP  - 576
PB  - Copernicus
CY  - Göttingen
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Prahl, Boris F.
A1  - Rybski, Diego
A1  - Boettle, Markus
A1  - Kropp, Jürgen
T1  - Damage functions for climate-related hazards: unification and uncertainty analysis
JF  - Natural hazards and earth system sciences
N2  - Most climate change impacts manifest in the form of natural hazards. Damage assessment typically relies on damage functions that translate the magnitude of extreme events to a quantifiable damage. In practice, the availability of damage functions is limited due to a lack of data sources and a lack of understanding of damage processes. The study of the characteristics of damage functions for different hazards could strengthen the theoretical foundation of damage functions and support their development and validation. Accordingly, we investigate analogies of damage functions for coastal flooding and for wind storms and identify a unified approach. This approach has general applicability for granular portfolios and may also be applied, for example, to heat-related mortality. Moreover, the unification enables the transfer of methodology between hazards and a consistent treatment of uncertainty. This is demonstrated by a sensitivity analysis on the basis of two simple case studies (for coastal flood and storm damage). The analysis reveals the relevance of the various uncertainty sources at varying hazard magnitude and on both the microscale and the macroscale level. Main findings are the dominance of uncertainty from the hazard magnitude and the persistent behaviour of intrinsic uncertainties on both scale levels. Our results shed light on the general role of uncertainties and provide useful insight for the application of the unified approach.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1189-2016
SN  - 1561-8633
VL  - 16
SP  - 1189
EP  - 1203
PB  - Copernicus
CY  - Göttingen
ER  -