Hurricanes and typhoons could get stronger as a result of human-driven climate change, which intensifies natural disasters. There were previously very few freely accessible computer models created to estimate the financial costs of such events.
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As human-driven climate change amplifies natural disasters, hurricanes and typhoons stand to increase in intensity. Until now, there existed very few freely available computer models designed to estimate the economic costs of such events, but a team of researchers led by Jane W. Baldwin at the University of California, Irvine recently announced the completion of an open-source model that stands to help countries with high tropical cyclone risks better calculate just how much those storms will impact their people and their economies.
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