About RISCOPE

Most of the existing forecast and early warning systems rely on the prediction of hydrodynamic conditions at the coast, or exceptionally on flood computations inland, but under deep simplifications. Recent scientific progresses now allow properly modeling coastal flooding events but such models are still very expensive in terms of computation time.

RISCOPE aims at addressing part of these challenges by developing a risk-based method contributing to forecast, early warning and prevention of coastal flooding risks. The solution explored in RISCOPE relies on meta-models, i.e. mathematical functions which estimate with good precision and at a negligible computational cost (<minutes) the results which could be obtained with the numerical model.