The researchers worked with cutting -
edge models linking the storm's wind speed, the exposed population, and per capita GDP to reported losses, using a newly designed data set for socio - economic and hazard - related predictors.
Earth System
Models are mathematical descriptions of the real world at the cutting
edge of understanding how our planet works and the
links between the main components of the oceans, vegetation, ice and desert, gases in the atmosphere, and the carbon cycle, as well as numerous other components.