Natural Disasters and Climate Change - Yousef's Notes
Natural Disasters and Climate Change

Natural Disasters and Climate Change

  • Predict weather phenomena and enable highly accurate hyperlocalized forecasts
  • Emergency preparedness: HPC models used to predict aspects of natural disasters: intensity and impact of earthquakes, path and ferocity of hurricanes, direction and impact of tsunamis
  • Weather variations in the US have an impact of $500 billion per year (€400 billion in EU)
  • 33% of the world’s GDP is affected by weather