Interactions between apparently ‘primary’ weather-driven hazards and their cost
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15548929 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John K Hillier (0000-0002-0221-8383, Loughborough University, corresponding author), Nicole Macdonald (0000-0003-0350-7096, University of Liverpool), Gregor C Leckebusch (0000-0001-9242-7682, University of Birmingham), A Stavrinides (Loughborough University) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 104003-104003 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Research Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-9326 • E-ISSN: 1748-9326 |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/10/10/104003 |
| OpenAlex | W2201771109 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 23 |
A statistical analysis of the largest weather-driven hazards in the UK contradicts the typical view that each predominates in distinct events that do not interact with those of other hazard types (i.e., are ‘primary’); this potentially has implications for any multi-hazard environments globally where some types of severe event are still thought to occur independently. By a first co-investigation of long (1884–2008) meteorological time-series and nationwide insurance losses for UK domestic houses (averaging £1.1 billion/yr), new systematic interactions within a 1 year timeframe are identified between temporally-distinct floods, winter wind storms, and shrink–swell subsidence events ( P < 0.03); this increases costs by up to £0.3 billion/yr (i.e., 26%), although impacts will be spatially variable depending upon the interplay of hazards. ‘Memory’ required in the environmental system to cause these intra-annual links between event types appears to reside in soil moisture and, tentatively, sea surface temperatures. Similar, unidentified interactions between non-synchronous events are likely worldwide, and the analytical methods we have developed to identify and quantify them are suitable for application to meteorological, geological (e.g., volcanic) and cryospheric (e.g., avalanches) hazards
Climatology · Event (particle physics · Geography · Hazard · Meteorology · Natural hazard · Physical geography · Storm · Subsidence · Volcanic hazards · Volcano · Climate variability and models · Environmental Science · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Landslides and related hazards · Ecology · Geology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |