10.5880/pik.2017.011 eng dataset GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences datapub@gfz-potsdam.de http://www.gfz-potsdam.de Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences pointOfContact 2021-08-18 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:4326 A data collection of tropical cyclone exposure data sets (TCE-DAT) 2021-08-18 revision doi:10.5880/pik.2017.011 Geiger, Tobias Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany author Frieler, Katja Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany author Bresch, David N. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH: Zurich, Switzerland author GFZ Data Services publisher Tropical cyclones (TCs) pose a major risk to societies worldwide. While data on observed cyclones tracks (location of the center) and wind speeds is publicly available these data sets do not contain information on the spatial extent of the storm and people or assets exposed. Here, we provide a collection of tropical cyclone exposure data (TCE-DAT) derived with the help of spatially-explicit data on population densities and Gross Domestic Product (GDP), also available at http://doi.org/10.5880/pik.2017.007. Up to now, this collection contains: 1) A global data set of tropical cyclone exposure accumulated to the country/event level (https://doi.org/10.5880/pik.2017.005) 2) A global data set of spatially-explicit tropical cyclone exposure available for all TC events since 1950 (https://doi.org/10.5880/pik.2017.008) TCE-DAT is considered key information to 1) assess the contribution of climatological versus socioeconomic drivers of changes in exposure to tropical cyclones, 2) estimate changes in vulnerability from the difference in exposure and reported damages and calibrate associated damage functions, and 3) build improved exposure-based predictors to estimate higher-level societal impacts such as long-term effects on GDP, employment, or migration. We expect that the free availability of the underlying model and TCE-DAT will make research on tropical cyclone risks more accessible to non-experts and stakeholders. Complete Geiger, Tobias Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany geiger@pik-potsdam.de pointOfContact climate risk modeling socio-economic exposure natural disasters EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > NATURAL HAZARDS > TROPICAL CYCLONES EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > POPULATION EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > SOCIOECONOMICS NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords publication environmental risk assessment GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 publication CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 10.1175/2008MWR2395.1 DOI References 10.1177/0959683609356587 DOI References 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00587.x DOI References 10.1175/2009BAMS2755.1 DOI References https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.09041 URL References https://github.com/davidnbresch/climada URL References http://www.munichre.com/ natcatservice URL References 10.5880/pik.2017.005 DOI HasPart 10.5880/pik.2017.008 DOI HasPart 10.5194/essd-10-185-2018 DOI IsSupplementTo 10.5880/pik.2017.007 DOI Cites eng geoscientificInformation -180 180 -90 90 http://doi.org/10.5880/pik.2017.011 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Data Access - DOI Data Access - DOI information