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SUBMITTER: Wing OEJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7081335 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wing Oliver E J OEJ Pinter Nicholas N Bates Paul D PD Kousky Carolyn C
Nature communications 20200319 1
Improvements in modelling power and input data have vastly improved the precision of physical flood models, but translation into economic outputs requires depth-damage functions that are inadequately verified. In particular, flood damage is widely assumed to increase monotonically with water depth. Here, we assess flood vulnerability in the US using >2 million claims from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). NFIP claims data are messy, but the size of the dataset provides powerful empiri ...[more]