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Intensification of Storm Surges 2008

Angola, United Arab Emirates, Argentina...and 71 more, 2008
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Reference ID
WLD_2008_ISS_v01_M
DOI
https://doi.org/10.48529/w7vc-qb32
Producer(s)
Susmita Dasgupta, David R. Wheeler, Siobhan Murray and Benoit Laplante
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    Survey ID number

    WLD_2008_ISS_v01_M

    Title

    Intensification of Storm Surges 2008

    Country/Economy
    Name Country code
    Angola AGO
    United Arab Emirates ARE
    Argentina ARG
    Benin BEN
    Bahamas, The BHS
    Brazil BRA
    Chile CHL
    China CHN
    Cameroon CMR
    Colombia COL
    Costa Rica CRI
    Cuba CUB
    Djibouti DJI
    Dominican Republic DOM
    Algeria DZA
    Ecuador ECU
    Egypt, Arab Rep. EGY
    Western Sahara ESH
    Gabon GAB
    Ghana GHA
    Guinea GIN
    Guinea-Bissau GNB
    Equatorial Guinea GNQ
    Guatemala GTM
    French Guiana GUF
    Guyana GUY
    Honduras HND
    Haiti HTI
    Indonesia IDN
    India IND
    Iran, Islamic Rep. IRN
    Jamaica JAM
    Kenya KEN
    Cambodia KHM
    Kuwait KWT
    Liberia LBR
    Libya LBY
    Sri Lanka LKA
    Morocco MAR
    Madagascar MDG
    Mexico MEX
    Myanmar MMR
    Mozambique MOZ
    Mauritania MRT
    Malaysia MYS
    Namibia NAM
    Nigeria NGA
    Nicaragua NIC
    Oman OMN
    Pakistan PAK
    Panama PAN
    Peru PER
    Philippines PHL
    Papua New Guinea PNG
    Puerto Rico PRI
    Korea, Dem. Rep. PRK
    Qatar QAT
    Saudi Arabia SAU
    Sudan SDN
    Senegal SEN
    Sierra Leone SLE
    El Salvador SLV
    Somalia SOM
    Sao Tome and Principe STP
    Suriname SUR
    Togo TGO
    Thailand THA
    Tunisia TUN
    Taiwan, China TWN
    Tanzania TZA
    Uruguay URY
    Venezuela, RB VEN
    Viet Nam VNM
    South Africa ZAF
    Other identifiers
    Type Identifier
    DOI https://doi.org/10.48529/w7vc-qb32
    Abstract
    This research was carried out by the World Bank in 2008. Financial support for this research was provided by the Research Department of the World Bank, and the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change study administered by the Environment Department of the World Bank. Funding for the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change study has been provided by the governments of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
    An increase in sea surface temperature is strongly evident at all latitudes and in all oceans. The scientific evidence to date indicates that increased sea surface temperature will intensify cyclone activity and heighten storm surges. These surges will, in turn, create more damaging flood conditions in coastal zones and adjoining low-lying areas. The destructive impact will generally be greater when storm surges are accompanied by strong winds and large onshore waves.
    In this research, we have considered the potential impact of a large (1-in-100-year) storm surge by contemporary standards, and then compared it with its 10% intensification which is expected to occur in this century.
    In modeling the future climate, we took account of changes in sea level rise, geological uplift and subsidence along the world’s coastlines. Geographic Information System (GIS) software has been used to overlay the best available, spatially-disaggregated global data on critical impact elements (Area, population, economic activity (GDP), agricultural land, urban areas, and wetlands), with the inundation zones projected for 84 coastal developing countries.
    Kind of Data

    Aggregate data [agg]

    Scope

    Notes

    The datasets include area, population, economic activity (GDP), agricultural land, urban areas, and wetlands.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Susmita Dasgupta, David R. Wheeler, Siobhan Murray and Benoit Laplante World Bank

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2008 2008

    Data appraisal

    Data Appraisal

    Limitations of the research:

    1. The relative likelihoods of alternative storm surge scenarios have not been assessed in this research. Following Nicholls et al (2007), a homogeneous future increase of 10% in extreme water levels during tropical storms is assumed. In all likelihood, regions of the world may experience a smaller increase and others a larger increase. Better local modeling of the impact of climate change on storm intensities (with the support of hurricane generator models) is needed to better forecast changes in storm surges.

    2. Among the 84 developing countries included in this analysis, our estimation is restricted to coastal segments where historical storm surges have been documented.

    3. The absence of a global database on shoreline protection has prevented us from incorporating the effect of existing protection measures (e.g., sea dikes) on exposure estimates.

    4. Lack of spatially disaggregated secondary information on indicators prevented us from including small islands in this analysis.

    5. The impacts of intensification of storm surges and SLR have been assessed using existing population, socio-economic conditions and patterns of land use, rather than attempting to predict their future states. Human activity is generally increasing more rapidly in coastal areas and thus the impacts of storm surges will be more pronounced in these areas. This effect is countered by adaptation measures (e.g., sea dikes), which we also do not attempt to estimate in this exercise. Adaptation measures from the purely technological (e.g., coastal embankments), to coastal-zone management (e.g., land-use planning, regulations, relocation) are often context, location and community-specific. Thus in our analysis, we refrain from generalizing any adaptive measures across our sub-set of developing countries.

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    Citation requirements

    Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

    • the Identification of the Primary Investigator
    • the title of the survey (including acronym and year of implementation)
    • the survey reference number
    • the source and date of download

    Example:

    Susmita Dasgupta et al., World Bank. Intensification of Storm Surges (ISS) 2008. Ref. WLD_2008_ISS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from http://microdata.worldbank.org on [date].

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    Development Research Group World Bank research@worldbank.org http://go.worldbank.org/B9W4QTDHR0

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_WLD_2008_ISS_v02_M

    Date of Metadata Production

    2011-02-10

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    DDI Document - Version 02 - (04/21/21)
    This version is identical to DDI_WLD_2008_ISS_v01_M but country field has been updated to capture all the countries covered by survey.

    Version 01 (February 2011)

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