Multi-hazard Dashboard for Caribbean Islands—First Design

Pauline P. Kruiver*, Elske de Zeeuw-van Dalfsen, Jelle Assink, Hylke de Vries, Eelco Doornbos, Iris Keizer, Marta Brotons Blanes, Lotte Savelberg, Marc J.C. van den Homberg, Ben A. Witvliet, Joerg Szarzynski, Irene Manzella, Dinand Alkema

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionAcademicpeer-review

46 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

The Caribbean is one of the application case studies within the Horizon Europe PARATUS project. This region faces multiple hazards: tropical cyclones, seismic hazards, volcanism, tsunamis, and space weather events. These hazards can have complex interactions, also with man-made hazardous events, in space and time, which can have both compounding and cascading impacts. The disaster risk management organizations often lack the information and tools to account for the cross-sectoral impacts and dynamic nature of the risks involved. KNMI has developed a prototype of a multi-hazard dashboard for the Dutch Caribbean islands (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, or BES). The dashboard can import KNMI geospatial datasets, but also external datasets in real-time and simultaneously shows information about weather models and satellite data as well as earthquakes and tsunami warnings. Impact chains have been co-created during the first stakeholder session of this application case study, held on St. Maarten in March 2023. The impact chain developed for the telecommunication sector serves as an example, because telecommunication is essential for disaster mitigation and relief. Climate change is affecting the Caribbean region already. KNMI examines possible future scenarios for societally-relevant variables like sea level rise, temperature and precipitation changes and tropical cyclones. The climate scenarios for selected islands will be developed further during PARATUS. They will feed into the PARATUS Platform, together with the impact chains.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 7th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology - 7ICEES 2023—Volume 2
EditorsMurat Altug Erberik, Aysegul Askan, Mustafa Kerem Kockar
Place of PublicationCham, Switzerland
PublisherSpringer
Pages371-385
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-031-57357-6
ISBN (Print)9783031573569
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Jun 2024
Event7th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, ICEES 2023 - Antalya, Turkey
Duration: 6 Nov 202310 Nov 2023
Conference number: 7

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Volume401 LNCE
ISSN (Print)2366-2557
ISSN (Electronic)2366-2565

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, ICEES 2023
Abbreviated titleICEES 2023
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityAntalya
Period6/11/2310/11/23

Keywords

  • 2024 OA procedure
  • Impact chains
  • Multi-hazard
  • Seismic hazard
  • Telecommunication
  • Tropical cyclones
  • Tsunami
  • Volcanism
  • Caribbean

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Multi-hazard Dashboard for Caribbean Islands—First Design'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this