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A methodology for the spatiotemporal identification of compound hazards: wind and precipitation extremes in Great Britain (1979–2019)
Department of Geography, King's College London, London WC2B 4BG,
United Kingdom
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Bruce D. Malamud
Department of Geography, King's College London, London WC2B 4BG,
United Kingdom
Amélie Joly-Laugel
EDF Energy R & D UK Centre, Croydon CR0 2AJ, United Kingdom
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Compound hazards occur when two different natural hazards impact the same time period and spatial area. This article presents a methodology for the spatiotemporal identification of compound hazards (SI–CH). The methodology is applied to compound precipitation and wind extremes in Great Britain for the period 1979–2019. The study finds that the SI–CH approach can accurately identify single and compound hazard events and represent their spatial and temporal properties.
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