Australia FloodCat
- Organisation
- Ambiental Risk Analytics
- Model Name
- Australia FloodCat
- Primary Hazard
- River flood (fluvial)
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Country
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Australia
- License
- Commercial
- Version
- V2.0
- Info URL
- https://www.ambientalrisk.com/australia-floodcat/
- Mathematical model
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Probabilistic and Deterministic
- First Release
- 2014
- Last Release
- 2018
- Actively Used In Sector
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- Secondary Hazard
- -
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Financial module
(i.e. insurance
policy conditions)
Financial module (i.e. insurance policy conditions)
- Not Included
- Abstract
- Based on Ambiental’s market-leading flood hazard model, Australia FloodCat™ is the most comprehensive and accurate Australia-wide catastrophe model available. Australia FloodCat™ includes more than 100,000 realistic synthetic flooding events, as well as major historic flood events throughout Australia to give accurate catastrophic flood catastrophe information right down to individual property level. Property vulnerability is classified according to usage, occupancy, construction type and other factors. So you can fully understand and quantify the impact of a full range of flood loss scenarios. Working in close collaboration with the insurance industry, Australia FloodCat™ has been thoroughly tested and validated against both historic floods and losses. It’s available immediately in Oasis, through Simpitium ModEx and Aon Benfield’s ELEMENTS platform.
- Model Components
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- Output Event Loss Table (ELT)
- Output Year Loss Table (YLT)
- Occurrence Exceedance Probabilities (OEP)
- Aggregate Exceedance Probabilities (AEP)
- Annual Average Loss (AAL)
- Geocoding Engine
- Default vulnerability functions (for multiple exposure types)
- Included hazard scenario(s)
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Spatial Resolution
Hazard
Spatial Resolution Hazard
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- Variable Resolution Grid (<10 m max. cell size)
- Coordinate (lat./long.)
- Building-block
- Postcode
- CRESTA
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Spatial Resolution
Exposure
Spatial Resolution Exposure
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- Coordinate (lat./long.)
- Building-block
- Postcode
- CRESTA
- Event Catalogue
- 10,000 years
- Vulnerability Modifiers
- Occupancy, number of stories, construction scheme
- Primary Modifiers
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- Main construction type or material
- Height or number of storeys
- Loss Amplification
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Uncertainty
Accounted For
Uncertainty Accounted For
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- Comments
- At a Glance:
Country-wide flood catastrophe model
Property and post code level
Pluvial and fluvial flooding
Flowroute-i™ 2D flood model
Highest precision for major cities
Full probability event catalogue
Up-to-date detailed vulnerability data (GAR15)
- Exposure Types
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- Residential Building
- Commercial Building
- Industrial Building
- Supported platform
- ELEMENTS, OASIS
- Platform details
- -
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Application Cloud
Hosting
Application Cloud Hosting
- Both
- Client Requirements
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Windows
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Client Requirements
RAM/CPU
Client Requirements RAM/CPU
- 16 GB/i5 multicore
- Browser Version
- Any
- Name
- Paul Drury
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Email Address /
Contact Details
Email Address / Contact Details
- paul.drury@ambientalrisk.com
- Telephone
- 07730402254
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Supporting
Documentation
Supporting Documentation
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- Services abstract
- Ambiental provides flood risk consultancy, data and models to a range of organisations from local and national governments to primary and re-insurers as well is international and intergovernmental organisations. For some time we have been a prominent consultancy and technology provider specialising in large scale flood risk investigations with developed skills, tools and methodologies to support catastrophic flood risk / loss modelling and the design of mitigation options (including flood forecasting and alerting systems) at both strategic and implementation levels. Our involvement in more general environmental risk assessment work has also led to a significant expertise and experience in wider environmental assessment, including ecology, climate change, and groundwater risk assessment. Additionally, we have developed expertise in flood monitoring and emergency response data services and command dashboards and also have strong relationships with a number of technical suppliers in this field. Ambiental is an established supplier of high-res, global flood hazard data with a proven capability to undertake bespoke flood modelling projects internationally; from local to national scale. Recent project experience in rapidly building catastrophe models and creating probabilistic event sets for use by the (re)insurance industry and governments. Ambiental is a recognised provider of risk analysis data, flood modelling software (e.g: Flowroute-i(TM))/ distribution platforms, and consultancy services with products which are suitable for use in parametric insurance / risk transfer. Through recent innovative projects awarded by NERC, Innovate UK and SSGP we have developed prototype solutions which can be exported internationally to enable stakeholders to better understand the risk of flooding. This work has included the build of a satellite tasking prioritisation map and satellite image processing capabilities, specifically applied to derive detailed flood extents which can be delivered to end users with greater accuracy and in faster timeframes than existing offerings. We have also made recent accomplishments in developing delivery platforms and integrated flood data feeds for real-time flood monitoring. We model and analyse the impacts of all sources of flooding (e.g. river, tidal and pluvial), and provide rapid screening solutions right through to highly detailed studies at a variety of spatial scales. Ambiental is also able to offer capacity building, consultancy and training in flood awareness and multi-peril disaster risk assessment, having trained World Bank staff in Washington DC amongst others. Our capability is maintained through close collaborations with industry and academic partners and we are quick to leverage emerging technologies so as to remain at the forefront of current scientific thinking in fields such as hazard prediction, remote sensing and climate change.
- Services downloads
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Ambiental_Risk_Analytics_-_Digital_Brochure.pdf
