Understanding TRANSCLIMA
The acronym TRANSCLIMA stands for ‘Detection and Global Risk Assessment of Coastal Transitional Climate and Neo-Climate Regions in a Warming World.’
The project aims to identify how extreme hazards—such as storm surge, and waves—are expected to change under climate change. In this project, we will specifically focus on total water level, which is the combination of waves and storm surge, as a key factor inducing coastal flooding. This analysis will include the impacts induced by tropical and extratropical cyclones, particularly within the SSP5 scenario by the year 2050.
The global coastlines are classified into climatic regions based on changes in the frequency and intensity of these events, including spatial changes in their distributions. Once classified, we can evaluate adaptive capacity, sensitivity, and exposure to identify hotspot regions at risk within each climatic zone.
The results will help assess whether current coastal conditions are prepared for future climate changes. For example, we can determine if structural standards account for the wind intensities projected under future scenarios, if regions have adequate warning systems for tropical and extratropical cyclones, and if evacuation routes are sufficient.
Key Features of TRANSCLIMA
Climatic regions for adaptation
Tailoring adaptation strategies to diverse climatic regions to build resilient coastal communities
Identifying Unprecedented Risks
Addressing emerging coastal risks through advanced hazard detection.
Data-Driven Insights
Our cutting-edge tools identify and model risks from tropical and extratropical cyclones, enabling proactive, long-term responses to protect coastal communities and resources.
Data Storytelling
Transform complex datasets into compelling, easy-to-understand visual stories that provide actionable insights for smarter decision-making
Community Engagement
Empowering local communities through open-source and open-access data, while enabling communities and stakeholders to contribute local knowledge through crowd-sourced data and risk reporting.
Coastal population affected by tropical cyclones in 2050 under the SSP5-8.5 climate change scenario
without accounting for population growth
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accounting for population growth for year 2050 under SSP5
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Work Packages
Work Package 1: Data Management
The work packages 0: The projects inteds to handel big data and this work package focuses on finding, preprocessing, and generating a protocol for the use of data.
The outputs will include TRANSCLIMA.data, TRANSCLIMA.coast and storm catalog.
Work Package 2: Climatic Characterization
This work package focuses on characterizing changes in coastal hazards induced by tropical and extratropical cyclones.
The output will include the Fast Cyclone Predictive Hazard Too.
Work Package 3: Climatic regions
This work package focuses on identifying climatic regions based on spatial, frequency, and intensity changes affected by cyclones and their induced hazards. The global coasts will be classified into climatic regions, tracking spatial uncertainty.
The output will be a comprehensive classification of coastal climatic regions.
Work package 4. Adaptation and risk indicators
Using the coastal characterization, social, ecosystem, and governance indicators will be analyzed to identify hotspots at risk. Critical areas will be identified, and guidelines will be proposed.