Weather warning archives reveal spatio-temporal hot spots of compound natural hazards.

ABSTRACT: Individual natural hazards may be combined in different ways, leading to cascading or co-occurring effects, turning them into compound hazards. However, assessment of individual as well as compound hazards is often hampered by short or incomplete observational records of actual hazards, and records of various hazards that do not easily combine. In this study we propose an alternative way to detect potential risk of compound natural hazards via archived severe weather warnings. We investigate weather warnings in Sweden from 2011 to 2020 regarding their distributions and frequencies in time (at daily level) and space (at warning district level) from both an individual and compound perspective. We illustrate the methodology and results by focusing on compound flood-related risk, generated by

SUBMITTER: Yang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12006412 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature