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Quantifying future flood risk: Inside Global Flood Cat | Future, July 15
Closing the gap in US flood map coverage – Webinar with ASCE
US Flood Risk Index: Reveal hidden flood risk. Prevent avoidable losses.
FathomDEM: an improved global terrain map using a hybrid vision transformer model
The climate challenge for boards: Perspectives from the financial sector
Introducing Global Flood Cat—The first truly global catastrophe model to cover all major flood perils.
A 30 m global flood inundation model for any climate scenario
The role of data: Key to understanding climate risk
Navigating global flood risk in a non-stationary world – A primer for actuaries
Metadata — Fathom’s first-of-its-kind assessment of flood risk data certainty
Climate resilience in fast growth markets and the power of data – Sept 19
Swiss Re acquires Fathom, global leader in water risk intelligence
Introducing FABDEM+ – the new standard for a globally consistent and accurate digital elevation model
New US Flood Map – The most complete and technologically advanced flood map for the United States
Fathom Risk Scores – Powerful flood risk metrics for any global location, under any climate scenario
Flood risk as a measure of asset value, panel webinar.
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Fathom has been providing high quality flood risk intelligence across a wide range of sectors since 2013
Insurance
Rapidly analyze and price exposures across the world simultaneously. Being open with our methodology has delivered significant benefits for our Insurance clients.
Engineering
Rapidly assess exposure to flooding and develop adaptation and resilience strategies to combat the impact of climate change.
Financial markets
Flood risk information available for any climate scenario or regulatory framework up to 2100.
Corporate
Flood risk assessments that support businesses to identify and manage flood exposure across any region globally.
International development
Fathom data provides an invaluable source of information that can be used to mitigate against, or respond to extreme events globally.
Academic scrutiny of our products gives our clients the reassurance that they are consuming trusted and transparent data from the forefront of science
Introducing BURGER, Fathom’s new extreme rainfall dataset
- Hoch, J.,
- Probyn, I.,
- Marra, F.,
- Lucas, C.,
- Bates, J.,
- Cooper, A.,
- Fowler, H.,
- Hatchard, S.,
- Lewis, E.,
- Savage, J.,
- Addor, N.,
- Sampson, C.
New research by Fathom’s Senior Hydrologist, Dr Jannis Hoch, and other Fathom scientists describes Fathom’s new dataset, Bottom Up Regionalised Global Extreme Rainfall, or BURGER for short. It’s the first of its kind to be created from rainfall gauge data and the first to contain extreme estimates for durations as short as an hour.
Global River Topology (GRIT): A bifurcating river hydrography
- Wortmann, M.,
- Slater, L.,
- Hawker, L.,
- Liu, Y.,
- Neal, J.,
- Zhang, B.,
- Schwenk, J.,
- Allen, G.,
- Ashworth, P.,
- Boothroyd, R.,
- Cloke,, H.,
- Delorme, P.,
- Gebrechorkos, S.,
- Griffith, H.,
- Leyland, J.,
- McLelland, S.,
- Nicholas, A.,
- Sambrook-Smith, G.,
- Vahidi, E.,
- Parsons, D.,
- Darby, S.
Researchers have created the first branching global river network that represents bifurcations, multi-threaded channels and canals.
FathomDEM Global Terrain Map
- Uhe, P.,
- Lucas, C.,
- Hawker, L.,
- Brine, M.,
- Wilkinson, H.,
- Cooper, A.,
- Saoulis, A.,
- Savage, J.,
- Sampson, C.
A new research paper published in Environmental Research Letters outlines the creation of FathomDEM, a new global 30 m DEM produced using a novel machine-learning approach.
Flooding is not like filling a bath
New commentary in Earth’s Future journal explains why the bathtub method should not be used in flood modeling.
SWOT data will reshape our understanding of the global terrestrial water cycle
- Getirana, A.,
- Kumar, S.,
- Bates CBE FRS, P.,
- Boone, A.,
- Lettenmaier, D.,
- Munier, S.
Just over a year after the SWOT satellite started sending its observation data to Earth, some of the scientists involved discuss how we can make the most of this unique resource.
Exposure to flooding in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
- Archer, L.,
- Neal, J.,
- Bates CBE FRS, P.,
- Lord, N.,
- Hawker, L.,
- Collings, T.,
- Quinn, N.,
- Sear, D.
A new study into the population exposed to flood risk across the Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
Fathom insights
Engineering matters podcast – Networks under water: transport, flooding and resilience
InsurTech Amplified podcast: Is now the first time we can map flood at scale?