From b8ad514b10db0c90c5cf837473e1b932abf492c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: emanuel-schmid Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:25:36 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] README.md change short description of climada --- README.md | 3 ++- doc/misc/README.md | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 399d2b5f11..c337708c31 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ # CLIMADA -[CLIMADA](https://climada.ethz.ch/climada/) stands for **CLIM**ate **ADA**ptation and is a probabilistic natural catastrophe impact model, that also calculates averted damage (benefit) thanks to adaptation measures of any kind (from grey to green infrastructure, behavioural, etc.). +[CLIMADA](https://climada.ethz.ch/climada/) (CLIMate ADAptation) is a free and open-source software framework for climate risk assessment and adaptation option appraisal. +Designed by a large scientific community, it helps reasearchers, policymakers, and businesses analyse the impacts of natural hazards and explore adaptation strategies. As of today, CLIMADA provides global coverage of major climate-related extreme-weather hazards at high resolution (4x4km) via a [data API](https://climada.ethz.ch/data-api/v1/docs) For select hazards, historic and probabilistic events sets, for past, present and future climate exist at distinct time horizons. You will find a repository containing scientific peer-reviewed articles that explain software components implemented in CLIMADA [here](https://github.com/CLIMADA-project/climada_papers). diff --git a/doc/misc/README.md b/doc/misc/README.md index 58d9075952..63bb7668e5 100644 --- a/doc/misc/README.md +++ b/doc/misc/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ # CLIMADA -CLIMADA stands for **CLIM**ate **ADA**ptation and is a probabilistic natural catastrophe impact model, that also calculates averted damage (benefit) thanks to adaptation measures of any kind (from grey to green infrastructure, behavioural, etc.). +[CLIMADA](https://climada.ethz.ch/climada/) (CLIMate ADAptation) is a free and open-source software framework for climate risk assessment and adaptation option appraisal. +Designed by a large scientific community, it helps reasearchers, policymakers, and businesses analyse the impacts of natural hazards and explore adaptation strategies. As of today, CLIMADA provides global coverage of major climate-related extreme-weather hazards at high resolution (4x4km) via a [data API](https://climada.ethz.ch/data-api/v1/docs) For select hazards, historic and probabilistic events sets, for past, present and future climate exist at distinct time horizons. You will find a repository containing scientific peer-reviewed articles that explain software components implemented in CLIMADA [here](https://github.com/CLIMADA-project/climada_papers).