Long-term climate risk: floods, heat, drought, sea level
get_climate_profileLong-term climate risk and environmental data of a place or property, read at the point from 55 global layers: river and coastal flood depth of a 100-year flood now and in 2050 and 2080, sea level rise, extreme heat and cold days, heavy rain, drought (SPI-12, aridity, WRI drought risk), water stress, wind and storm days, warming and rainfall change to 2050 and 2080 (CMIP6), NDVI vegetation index and leaf area, wildfire burned area, soil moisture, snow, surface water, elevation, slope, land subsidence, land cover, built-up share and the Köppen climate zone.
Use it for what a place is exposed to over years, and once per place to compare places; assess_place has only the headline layers. For this week's weather use get_forecast; for events happening now, get_hazards_near.
Narrow it with categories, or with layers by id: the resource criora://layers, or fetch catalog:layers, lists every layer with its unit, years and source. Returns each layer's readings by band with its unit, year, cell size and source (ERA5, CMIP6, WRI Aqueduct, IPCC AR6, MODIS, JRC, Copernicus DEM and others). Give latitude and longitude, or a place name.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| place | No | A place name or address, used only when latitude and longitude are not given. It is resolved to its best match by a geocoder shared by every user and limited to one lookup a second, so pass coordinates when you have them | |
| layers | No | Only these layers, by id, e.g. ndvi/annual for the NDVI vegetation index or flood_riverine/inundation for river flood depth; every id with what it measures is in the resource criora://layers. Combined with categories, both are given | |
| latitude | No | Latitude of the place asked about, in degrees, WGS84. Give it with longitude, or give place instead | |
| longitude | No | Longitude of the place asked about, in degrees, WGS84. Give it with latitude, or give place instead | |
| categories | No | Only the layers of these categories; every layer when omitted. temperature: hottest day of the year, coldest night of the year, hot days over 35 °C, summer days, tropical nights, frost nights, ice days, mean temperature with the coldest and warmest month, UTCI felt temperature (heat and cold stress), warming to 2050 and 2080 (CMIP6), change in the warmest month's maximum to 2050 and 2080, change in the coldest month's minimum to 2050 and 2080; precipitation: heavy-rain days (10 to 100 mm) and the wettest day, precipitation with the driest and wettest month, daily rain of the wettest month, change in annual rainfall to 2050 and 2080, change in the wettest quarter's rainfall, change in the driest quarter's rainfall, drought risk (WRI Aqueduct), SPI-12 drought index, aridity index, snow cover, snow water equivalent, snowmelt, snow albedo; wind: strongest wind gust of the year, gale, storm and hurricane-force gust days, mean wind speed, CAPE, the energy of thunderstorms; water: baseline water stress (WRI Aqueduct), water stress in 2050 and 2080 (WRI Aqueduct), soil moisture, relative humidity, vapour pressure deficit, potential evaporation, surface water occurrence from 38 years of Landsat (JRC), share of lakes, rivers and wetlands, lake or wetland type, distance to the coast; flooding: river flood depth of a 100-year flood, now and in 2050 and 2080 (WRI Aqueduct), coastal flood depth of a 100-year flood, now and in 2050 and 2080 (WRI Aqueduct), GloFAS 30-day flood forecast, sea level rise to 2050 and 2100 (IPCC AR6); vegetation: NDVI vegetation index, annual mean, minimum and maximum (MODIS satellite), leaf area index of trees and shrubs, leaf area index of grass and crops, area burned by wildfire last year (GFED, satellite), area burned by wildfire each year since 2002 (GFED, satellite); terrain: elevation (Copernicus DEM), slope, terrain ruggedness, probability of land subsidence over 1 cm a year, land subsidence rate class; landcover: land cover class (MODIS satellite), built-up share of the land (JRC GHSL, Sentinel-2 and Landsat); misc: Köppen climate zone, now and in 2050 and 2080, solar radiation, solar radiation of the sunniest month, surface runoff |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| notes | Yes | ||
| layers | Yes | ||
| sources | Yes | Each source by name, with what its layers share | |
| datasets | Yes | The description the layers of one dataset share | |
| location | Yes | ||
| criora_url | Yes | ||
| resolved_from | Yes | What a place name was resolved to; null when coordinates were given |