In this lecture
- Locate the main national hazard datasets
- Match a dataset's resolution to the decision it can support
- Avoid over-reading a coarse national dataset
A tour of what already exists
Before commissioning new data, a working tour of what the Department of Meteorology, the Disaster Management Centre and the National Adaptation Plan's own technical annexes already hold - rainfall, temperature, sea-level and past-event records - and what resolution each one actually supports.
National resolution is not divisional resolution
A national hazard map is built to compare provinces, not to site a culvert. Using it to make a divisional-level decision borrows a precision the data never had, and an assessment that says so plainly is more useful than one that quietly assumes a downscaling nobody checked.
Materials
Yours to keep, and usable away from the platform.
- National hazard data sources - mapPDF · 1.1 MB
Design prototype - the attachments are placeholders and nothing downloads yet.
Lecture quiz
4 questions, plus 3 written questions at the end - taken whenever you are ready. This is what unlocks the next lecture.