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LAST-MODIFIED:20121116T203436Z
DTSTART:20111201T170000Z
DTEND:20111201T180000Z
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URL:http://physics.bu.edu/internal/events/show/275
SUMMARY:On the estimation of damages due to coastal floods
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Diego Rybski\, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact R
	esearch (PIK)\, Germany\nHosted by: Ronny Bartsch\n\nAbstract:Sea level ris
	e is going to affect the statistics of extreme sealevels. If one wants to c
	alculate damages due to upcoming stormsurges\, it is necessary to estimate 
	the damage due toindividual flood events. In the case of (coastal) floods\,
	 so called stage damage functions are employed\, which provide for aflood o
	f certain maximum level a typical damage that occurs ata considered locatio
	n. We investigate how changes in theextreme value statistics affect the exp
	ected damages and find surprisingly simple relations. Our results show that
	 inaddition to the knowledge about local sea level rise\, it isessential to
	 know the actual form of damage functions whichusually follow power-laws. T
	hus\, we estimate damage functions (i) from historical flood damages and (i
	i) from a limited case study.
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