- Title
- An assessment of damage costs due to hurricane wind and hurricane-induced storm surge considering the impacts of climate change
- Creator
- Bjarnadottir, S.; Li, Y.; Stewart, M. G.
- Relation
- 11th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability [presented in Safety, Reliability, Risk and Life-Cycle Performance of Structures & Infrastructures] (New York 16-20 June, 2013) p. 1247-1254
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b16387-184
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- This paper presents a framework to assess the potential hurricane damage risks to residential construction. Studies show that hurricane wind, frequency and/or hurricane-induced surge may change as a result of climate change; therefore, hurricane risk assessments should be capable of accounting for the impacts climate change. The framework includes a hurricane wind field model, hurricane-induced surge height model, and hurricane vulnerability models. Three case study locations (Miami-Dade County, Florida, New Hanover County, North Carolina, Galveston County, Texas) are presented for two types of analyses: Annual Regional Loss Estimation and Event-Based Regional Loss Estimation. Demographic information, such as median house value and changes in house numbers, and distribution of houses for different exposures, is used to estimate the time-dependent probability of damage with or without possible climate change induced change in wind speed, frequency, and/or surge height. Through both analyses it was found that climate change may have a significant impact on regional hurricane damage losses.
- Subject
- hurricane wind; hurricane-induced storm; climate change; storm damage
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1317913
- Identifier
- uon:23537
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781138000865
- Language
- eng
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