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Wikimpacts 1.0 accepted in NHESS – publication coming soon

Published on 2026

The Wikimpacts team is pleased to announce that the paper "Wikimpacts 1.0: A new global climate impact database based on automated information extraction from Wikipedia" has been accepted in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) and will be published soon. This milestone marks an important step for the project, highlighting Wikimpacts as an innovative open-access resource for global hazard and climate impact research. Wikimpacts 1.0 provides systematically structured disaster impact information derived through automated information extraction, supporting climate risk analysis, vulnerability assessment, and disaster research across multiple hazard types.

The publication represents a major achievement for the consortium and lays the scientific foundation for future developments, including Wikimpacts 2.0 and expanded hazard impact applications.

Ni Li to present Wikimpacts 2.0 tropical cyclone damage functions at EGU General Assembly 2026

Published on May 2026

Ni Li (VUB Department of Water and Climate) will present a new set of tropical cyclone damage functions calibrated using the expanded Wikimpacts 2.0 database and the CLIMADA ensemble-of-strategies method at the EGU General Assembly 2026 in Vienna. This work introduces Wikimpacts 2.0, a major expansion of the original database, and recalibrates tropical cyclone damage functions using the largest publicly available tropical cyclone damage dataset currently available. The study significantly improves local-scale climate risk and disaster loss modelling.

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