What is a Hazard Module?
The component of a catastrophe model that simulates the physical characteristics of events (wind speed, ground shaking, flood depth).
Hazard Module
The component of a catastrophe model that simulates the physical characteristics of events (wind speed, ground shaking, flood depth).
How it works in practice
In a hurricane catastrophe model, the hazard module generates 100,000 synthetic storms by sampling from historical track data, central pressure distributions, and radius-of-maximum-wind parameters. For each storm, the module calculates wind speed, storm surge height, and rainfall intensity at every grid point along the coast. This output feeds into the vulnerability module to estimate physical damage.
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