Recent Releases of Climate Risk Assessment Book
Climate Risk Assessment Book - v2025.04.1
CLIMAAX CRA Handbook v2025.04.1
- Update HEATWAVES workflows: v2025.04.0 → v2025.04.1
- 01 urban heatwaves: add land surface temperature calculation from Landsat images as an alternative to the RSLab portal.
- 01 urban heatwaves: refactor parts of the xclim hazard assessment.
- 01 urban heatwaves: define individual thresholds for xclim indicators in hazard assessment.
- 01 urban heatwaves: update instructions to download population data for risk assessments.
- Update FIRE workflows: v2025.04.0 → v2025.04.1
- 02 wildfire (FWI): add an automatic downloader for land cover data from CDS
- Minor tweaks to environments following the Python 3.12 upgrade in v2025.04.0.
- Update the documentation for the CLIMAAX JupyterHub.
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Climate Risk Assessment Book - v2025.04.0
CLIMAAX CRA Handbook v2025.04.0
- All workflows: ⚠️ update to Python 3.12.
- Users are advised to update their environments to ensure compatibility with future developments.
- Breaking change: removal of basemap and mplleaflet packages.
- Update DROUGHTS workflows: v2025.03.1 → v2025.04.0
- 02 agriculture drought: fix calculation and visualisation of revenue loss in risk assessment. ⚠️ Users are advised to update existing notebooks and rerun the revenue loss calculation.
- 02 agriculture drought: add filter for tif-files when loading from MapSPAM folder.
- 02 agriculture drought: fix model names in list of choices from CORDEX.
- 02 agriculture drought: replace basemap with cartopy.
- Update FIRE workflows: v2025.01.0 → v2025.04.0
- 02 wildfire (FWI): replace basemap with cartopy.
- Update FLOODS workflows: v2025.01.2 → v2025.04.0
- Update HEATWAVES workflows: v2025.03.1 → v2025.04.0
- 01 urban heatwaves: fix y-axis label of EUROHeat notebook plots.
- Update HEAVY_RAINFALL workflows: v2025.01.2 → v2025.04.0
- 01 extreme precipitation: add domain check for thresholds and climate datasets.
- Update SNOW workflows: v2025.03.1 → v2025.04.0
- Update STORMS workflows: v2025.02.0 → v2025.04.0
- Add drop-in session schedule.
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Climate Risk Assessment Book - v2025.03.1
CLIMAAX CRA Handbook v2025.03.1
- Update HEATWAVES workflows: v2025.02.0 → v2025.03.1
- 01 urban heatwaves: don't write population rasterstack before summing and clip with bbox to reduce disk space requirements of risk assessment (projected change).
- Update DROUGHTS workflows: v2025.03.0 → v2025.03.1
- 01 relative drought: update hazard notebook outputs.
- 01 relative drought: fix numpy>=2 compatibility for nan_to_num in WASP calculation.
- 02 agriculture drought: select time period explicitly when loading climate data in hazard notebook.
- Update SNOW workflows: v2024.12.0 → v2025.03.1
- 01 heavy snowfall & blizzards: adapt to CDS returning a zip file for ERA5 data request in hazard assessment.
- 01 heavy snowfall & blizzards: fix pandas deprecation warning in resampling.
- Add coordinate reference system information to
precipitation_idf_europe
dataset page.
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Climate Risk Assessment Book - v2025.03.0
CLIMAAX CRA Handbook v2025.03.0
- Update DROUGHTS workflows: v2025.01.1 → v2025.03.0
- 02 agriculture drought: fix column access indices for Kc and growing periods in yield percentage reduction computation of hazard assessment. ⚠️ Users are strongly advised to update existing notebooks based on the changes in commit https://github.com/CLIMAAX/DROUGHTS/commit/3a0d82b6ac057c84f5b0b823cc832faf7c64e09f and rerun both the hazard and risk assessments. Input data is not affected and does not need to be redownloaded.
- Update package list for JupyterLab desktop
- Reorganize support pages
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Climate Risk Assessment Book - v2025.02.0
CLIMAAX CRA Handbook v2025.02.0
- Update HEATWAVES workflows: v2025.01.2 → v2025.02.0
- 01 urban heatwaves: update links and text presentation
- Update STORMS workflows: v2025.01.2 → v2025.02.0
- 01 windstorms: add option to compute storm footprint from basic ERA5 reanalysis data (hazard assessment)
- 01 windstorms: new windstorm selection helper notebook to help with search for suitable events from preconfigured catalogue
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Climate Risk Assessment Book - v2025.01.2
CLIMAAX CRA Handbook v2025.01.2
- Update FLOODS workflows: v2024.12.0 → v2025.01.2
- 01 coastal flooding: update URL to LUISA base map
- 02 river flooding: update URL to LUISA base map
- Update HEAVY RAINFALL workflows: v2024.12.0 → v2025.01.2
- 01 extreme precipitation: add tip box with information on how to calculate local return periods with ERA5
- Update HEATWAVES workflows: v2025.01.1 → v2025.01.2
- 01 urban heatwaves: update links to WorldPop vulnerability data
- Update STORMS workflows: v2024.12.0 → v2025.01.2
- 01 windstorm: update URL to LUISA base map
- Added links to exposure and vulnerability dataset tables
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Climate Risk Assessment Book - v2025.01.1
CLIMAAX CRA Handbook v2025.01.1
- Update DROUGHTS workflows: v2025.01.0 → v2025.01.1
- 01 agricultural drought: give unique filenames to results plots of hazard assessment
- Python environment: update pyDataverse to version 0.3.4
- Update HEATWAVES workflows: v2024.12.0 → v2025.01.1
- Python environment: pin rio-tiler to version 6.7.0 to fix issue with localtileserver
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Climate Risk Assessment Book - v2025.01.0
CLIMAAX CRA Handbook v2025.01.0
- Update DROUGHTS workflows: v2024.12.0 → v2025.01.0
- 01 relative drought: fix typos and text formatting (no code changes).
- 02 agricultural drought: update video URL in risk assessment.
- Update of FIRE workflows: v2024.12.0 → v2025.01.0
- 02 wildfire (FWI): add
engine="rasterio"
when loading vulnerability data to ensure files can be opened by xarray. - 02 wildfire (FWI): remove interactive map of wildfire risk due to broken mplleaflet package. The package is removed from the Python environment. All information from the removed plot is also shown in the static plot still available in the workflow.
- 02 wildfire (FWI): update video URL in risk assessment.
- 02 wildfire (FWI): add
- Update links to revised Deliverable 1.4 (CRA framework)
- Restructure support pages.
- Update FAQ.
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Climate Risk Assessment Book - v2024.12.0
CLIMAAX CRA Handbook v2024.12.0
- Update of FLOODS workflows: v2024.11.0 → v2024.12.0
- 01 river floods: Removed known hash requirement from the API access to the JRC EU floodmaps dataset.
- 02 coastal floods: update access/authentication procedure for floodmaps dataset to accommodate changes on data server. The adlfs package is now required to run the workflow. The environment has been updated, users with existing environments need to add the package.
- Update of FIRE workflows: v2024.11.1 → v2024.12.0
- 01 wildfire (ML): new hazard assessment notebook based on CHELSA dataset as an alternative to the ECLIPS dataset. The existing ECLIPS-based notebook has been restructured to ensure common procedures in both hazard assessment notebooks. Common components of both notebooks have been extracted into a new shared_funcs.py file. The seaborn package is now required to run the workflow. The environemt has been updated, users with existing environments need to add the package.
- 02 wildfire (FWI): fix a typo.
- Update of STORMS workflows: v2024.10.0 → v2024.12.0
- 01 windstorm: add references and fix typos.
- Update cdsapi in all workflow environments to version 0.7.5
- Add workflow videos for river flooding, flood damages and population exposed, heatwaves, agricultural droughts and FWI wildfire workflows.
- Fix name of cds api configuration file on support page.
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Climate Risk Assessment Book - v2024.11.1
CLIMAAX CRA Handbook v2024.11.1
- Update of FIRE workflows: v2024.10.0 → v2024.11.1
- 02: Updated download of daily data and concatenation to reduce disk space required for downloading.
- 02: Fix typos.
- Update of HEATWAVES workflows: v2024.11.0 → v2024.11.1
- Pinned version of werkzeug package to fix failing import of localtileserver.
- New page: CRA Steps » Risk Analysis » Climate projections.
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Climate Risk Assessment Book - v2024.11.0
CLIMAAX CRA Handbook v2024.11.0
- Update of HEAVY_RAINFALL workflows: v2024.10.1 → v2024.11.0
- 01: Fix small bug in shift_point city example.
- Update of FLOODS workflows: v2024.10.0 → v2024.11.0
- 03: Add comments to clarify use of variables.
- 03: Fix typos.
- Update of HEATWAVE workflows: v2024.10.2 → v2024.11.0
- 01: Add information on how to compute LST from Landsat data.
- 01: Add user guidance for inclusion of own data.
- 01: Tweak output presentation and file names.
- CRA Steps » Risk Analysis » CRA Datasets: add introduction to exposure and vulnerability data.
- Resources » Support: add information on CDS access token handling and workflow updates.
- Home: fix operator in risk definition formula (× instead of +).
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Climate Risk Assessment Book - v2024.10.2
CLIMAAX CRA Handbook v2024.10.2
- New page: Uncertainties in exposure and vulnerability datasets
- Update of HEATWAVE workflow:
- More robust code when LST pictures are downloaded not in the whole package but only individual pictures (the date format is little different there)
- Plot Risk data on the interactive map [at the end]: change the naming of the HWRI output file to "Possible heat risk level to vulnerable population.tif"
- Remove references to open calls (2nd and final CLIMAAX open call closed on 15 October)
- Updated support information
- Cleaned up files in the repository
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Climate Risk Assessment Book - v2024.10.1
CLIMAAX CRA Handbook v2024.10.1
- Update of HEAVY RAINFALL workflows to v2024.10.1
- Small improvements to the text for the hazard and risk assessment sections.
- A new version of the Catalunya example. This includes more visualisations and explanations to help users interpret the results.
- New European datasets.
- Improved support documentation
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Climate Risk Assessment Book - v2024.10.0
CLIMAAX CRA Handbook v2024.10.0
No release notes provided. See our related news item on the CLIMAAX homepage.
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Climate Risk Assessment Book - v2024.06.0
CLIMAAX CRA Handbook v2024.06.0
No release notes provided.
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Published by chpolste 7 months ago