KatRisk releases SpatialKat 5.0

Dear colleagues and customers -

We are happy to announce the availability of our version 5.0 of SpatialKat today. Please contact us for the full release notes. Here are some highlights:

1) New Models

• US hail (1km resolution, 50k years event set, correlated to KatRisk SST)

• Australia and New Zealand inland flood (correlated events with TC wind)

• Australia storm surge (driven by AUS TC wind events - our global TC wind models have been available for more than 2 years)

2) New Software Functionality

• US inland flood/storm surge/tropical cyclone rapid location analyses (down to 1 to 3 sec)

• SQL data storage

• Custom vulnerability

• Custom aggregation fields

• Climate state analysis options (global teleconnections)

• Data-driven event response

• Wind and surge data lookups during import

• Analysis post-processing: combine analyses and marginal impact calculations (KatRisk analysis offers coherent risk measures that are fully additive by event sample ID)

• Copy ID functionality

• Profile in JSON format

• API key expiration

• Additional server configuration options available in the user interface

3) Model and Data Updates

• Additional US inland flood/storm surge/tropical cyclone historical events (up to 2022)

• Additional Europe inland flood historical events

• Minor defense changes for Europe inland flood in Poland

• CMIP6 based climate change options (current climate change options are still available)

• International tropical cyclone vulnerability update (from our global TC models)

Please let us know if you have any questions or want additional details.

Thanks,

KatRisk Team