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AI for Wildfires and Heatwaves

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Image credit: Bellwether LEAP Wallerstein Panel Series: AI + Extreme Weather Preparedness Based on panel presentations and discussions by Ali Ahmadalipour, Elena Xoplaki, Jatan Buch, and Jorge Pérez Aracil. Wildfire activity in the western United States from 1984 to 2020 (Buch et al., Sharing lessons learned is also extremely important.

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What is the Climate Finance Vulnerability Index (CliF-VI)?

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

By: Amy Campbell, Student Researcher, National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) Adaptation finance is critically underfunded, with existing finance skewed toward mitigation and middle-income markets. Adaptation financing must be deployed in ways that reflect not only climate risk but also the fiscal capacity of the recipient.

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Data and AI for Decision-Support and Policy

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Miguel-ngel Fernndez-Torres, an Assistant Professor at the Signal Theory and Communications Department at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and co-lead of the Working Group on Data at the Global Initiative on Resilience to Natural Hazards through AI Solutions. AI, Data, and Disasters In disasters, data is fragmented.

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Training Solutions: Enhancing Tribal Nations’ Readiness and Resilience

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) of the Climate School, Columbia University, has been awarded a $1.5 However, institutional barriers often limit many communities’ adaptive capacities. NCDP is committed to understanding the prevention and most effective response strategies for large-scale disasters.

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NCDP 20th Anniversary Reflections and Impacts

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

In 2003, the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia University, was founded to provide an academically based, interdisciplinary center focused on the capacity to prevent, respond to, and recover from disasters. and international disaster preparedness, response, and long-term recovery.

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AI for Early Warning Systems and Anticipatory Action

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Emerging advancements in weather and hazard forecasting enabled by machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) present promising new solutions for adapting to increasingly frequent and severe weather events. United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2017). United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2017).

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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

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But hospital crisis managers must also account for the unique care-dependent nature of hospital operations by taking these four disaster preparedness steps: Adjust staffing levels, supplies, and emergency medicine stores to accommodate patient-surge capacity.