Severe Wind Hazard Assessment for Queensland

The Severe Wind Hazard Assessment for Queensland (SWHA(Q)) project aims to to provide realistic and tangible data on the potential physical impacts of severe tropical cyclones on Queensland communities to enable the emergency management sector and local government to more effectively engage with the community. The data and information will also assist with the understanding of the potential impacts from climate change and inform strategic risk treatment strategies.

The project is a collaboration between Geoscience Australia and Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES), with additional support from Department of Environment and Science Queensland (DES).

This repository holds scripts and configuration files used in the modelling and analysis components of the project. References are made to other code bases maintained by Geoscience Australia - e.g. TCRM and HazImp.

Contact: Craig Arthur: craig.arthur@ga.gov.au

Shane Martin: shane.martin@ga.gov.au

This directory contains input, output and model configuration files used for the Severe Wind Hazard Assessment for Queensland project (2019-2020).

Directory structure:

Top-level structure of the data in this collection

/g/data/w85/QFES_SWHA/
|-- configuration* -- configuration files for TCRM, processMultipliers, HazImp
|-- exposure -- exposure database files (CSV, extracted from NEXIS)
|-- hazard -- hazard simulation data for current and future climate scenarios
|-- impact -- outputs of the impact calculations for scenario analysis.
|-- multipliers -- local wind multiplier data, subdirectories for each community
|-- notebooks -- IPython notebooks used for analysis and processing
|-- scripts -- various Python, shell and other scripts used in the processing
|-- tracks -- Event tracks, top-level contains netcdf-format files
| `-- shapefile -- Event tracks, ESRI shapefile format
|-- vulnearbility -- Vulnerability models used for the impact analyses
`-- wind
 |-- local -- local wind fields, subdirectories for each scenario
  `-- regional -- regional wind fields, subdirectories for each scenario

* This folder is under version control to track changes to configuration files.

configuration:

tcrm:: Configuration files for running TCRM

pm:: Configuration files for running the processMultipliers code

hazimp:: Configuration files for running HazImp

jobs:: Job scripts to run processes on gadi.nci.org.au

exposure:

Input exposure files, using the TCRM formats extracted from NEXIS. These contain building point information used to calculate impacts, plus other sources of exposure information used in this and related projects

hazard:

TCRM <https://github.com/GeoscienceAustralia/tcrm.git>_ generated hazard data for a range of future climate scenarios. The future climate information is derived using tropical cyclone-like vortices (TCLVs), extracted from regional climate models run by the University of Queensland.

multipliers:

Local wind multipliers for all of Queensland.

input:: input land cover (terrain) data and DEMs

output:: Tiled output for each domain

tracks:

NetCDF format tracks (extracted from TCHA18) of the scenarios used in the project. These are selected in consultation with QFES.

A subdirectoy contains ESRI shape file versions of the tracks.

wind:

The regional and local wind fields of all scenarios created in the project.

Contacts:

Craig Arthur Geoscience Australia craig.arthur@ga.gov.au

Last updated:

2020-03-02

leochencipher / SWHAQ