Hazards, Disasters and Resilience
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Illustrative: inflow spiralling to the eyewall, ascent, outflow aloft, rain bands and the storm surge
Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Hazards, Disasters and Resilience
A flood is stated as a probability before it is drawn as a depth: annual exceedance probability, return period, the standard of protection a defence is built to.
The model
From a gauge record to a defence standard: how a return period becomes a depth, a damage and a residual risk
DataModelGateDecisionStandard it teachesStandard it relies onNeighbouring discipline
The model From a gauge record to a defence standard: how a return period becomes a depth, a damage and a residual risk
The subtopics its courses and labs teach.
For hydrologists, forecasters, planners, insurers and emergency managers who need to read a flood map, a cyclone forecast or a return-period statement and act on it with its uncertainty in view.
Each method is listed with what it assumes and where it fails.
Bodies and standards are named so learners can find and apply their published work; the Academy teaches their use and links to the publisher, and no affiliation is implied.
Floods, storms and tropical cyclones's own model runs in the scene at the top of this page: set its parameters there and play the steps. The separate chart simulator is left off this page so that it stays within its size budget.
Search any place or open the world; the layers and generators follow floods, storms and tropical cyclones on the planet map, the globe and in 3D.
Drag to move, right drag or Shift with a drag to turn and tilt, Ctrl with the wheel to zoom. Keyboard: arrows move, Shift with arrows turn and tilt, + and - zoom, 0 resets, V steps through the views, Escape clears.
Flat plan of the same data: relief, the two epicentres with magnitude and depth, the WorldPop count grid and the numbers below. The 3D twin opens on devices with WebGL once its data and library have been checked.
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The Nexus Standards the discipline teaches toward, grouped by master standard, with the disciplines that teach each.
Nexus Standards at the AcademyThe Academy proposes how each discipline teaches toward the Nexus Standards; the mapping is open for review by the editors of the Nexus Standards.
Open scholarly sources searched with the subject terms of Floods, storms and tropical cyclones.
Search termsFloods, storms and tropical cyclones; Riverine flood; Flash and pluvial flood; Coastal flood and storm surge; Tropical cyclones; Severe convective stormsDerived from the Risk Academy page on Floods, storms and tropical cyclones.
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Research and preprints as they are published, by discipline, with the faculty's other tools.
The hub lists the newest research and preprints for Floods, storms and tropical cyclones, each with its source and date. Open the research hub
From the Academy's risk taxonomy: the discipline's own entries and those of its primary courses, with how many courses teach each.
Recent developments in floods, storms and tropical cyclones, each with its source; sources checked on 16 October 2026.
Courses for this discipline are in development; until they open, study it through the connected courses and open lessons below.
Each course has its primary discipline elsewhere and teaches this field as part of its scope.
Field platforms of the ecosystem where the subject is studied and applied.
Start with Kundzewicz, then Merz, then Coles.
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