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Cechet, R.P. | Arthur, W.C. | Wehner, M. | Sanabria, L.A. | Thomas, C.
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Climate change is expected to increase severe wind hazard in many regions of the Australian continent with consequences for exposed infrastructure and human populations. The objective of this study is to provide a nationally consistent assessment of wind risk under current climate and to provide preliminary indications of the effects (re-turn period impact and risk expressed as annualized loss) of future hazard under several climate change scenarios. This is being undertaken by separately considering wind haz-ard, infrastructure exposure and the wind vulnerability of infrastructure (residential build-ings only). The National Wind Risk Assessment (NWRA), when it reports in December 2010, will identify communities subject to high wind risk under present climate, and also those communities which will be most susceptible to any climate change related exacer-bation of local wind hazard, requiring an adaptation response. The purpose of this paper is to present details of the methodology being utilised for the NWRA.
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