Physical vulnerability assessment on storm surge disaster in China's coastal areas from 1990 to 2009

  • Lirong Tan*
  • , Jun Wang
  • , Ke Chen
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Storm surge disaster is very serious in China's coastal areas. Firstly, storm surge disaster vulnerability index (Storm Surge Vulnerability Index, SSVI) is built to assess the physical vulnerability of storm surge disasters of China's coastal provinces by learning form the assessment method of Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI). Then, the physical vulnerability of storm surge disasters is assessed using additive model and the level of SSVI is divided, according to the storm surge disaster loss data during 1990 to 2009 of eleven provinces in coastal region. The results show that there is a large inter-annual and phase variation of SSVI in eleven provinces of China's coastal region, and generally the level of SSVI in southeastern provinces is greater than the northern.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2011 19th International Conference on Geoinformatics, Geoinformatics 2011
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 19th International Conference on Geoinformatics, Geoinformatics 2011 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 24 Jun 201126 Jun 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2011 19th International Conference on Geoinformatics, Geoinformatics 2011

Conference

Conference2011 19th International Conference on Geoinformatics, Geoinformatics 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period24/06/1126/06/11

Keywords

  • Additive Model
  • Coastal Regions
  • Coastal Vulnerability Index
  • Physical Vulnerability
  • Storm Surge Disaster
  • Storm Surge Vulnerability Index

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