Risk analysis of infrastructure networks in response to extreme weather (RAIN)

RAIN aims at quantifying the complex interactions between weather events and land based infrastructure systems. The output of RAIN helps decision making in the long term, securing new robust infrastructure development and protection of existing infrastructure against climate change and increasingly more unpredictable weather patterns. Transport, energy and telecommunications infrastructure are considered, and risk mitigation strategies developed. This is achieved through developing an operational analysis framework that considers the impact of individual hazards on specific infrastructure systems and the coupled interdependencies of critical infrastructure through robust risk and uncertainty modelling.

The Extreme Weather Risk Assessment Tool developed within the RAIN project  by Grupo AIA allows a reproducible workflow that integrates weather threats and physical context to estimate the social impact described by specific markers, useful for decision support (in planning and operation) and the analysis of what-if scenarios.

The webtool source code has been made publicly available at Github. Demo videos of the usage of the webtool are available on YouTube.