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Challenge

Build a CLIMADA Coastal Flood Asset Risk Modeler

Assess coastal infrastructure resilience against projected storm surge events using the CLIMADA modeling framework. Quantify expected asset damage from simulated extreme weather scenarios to formulate municipal hazard adaptation strategies.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Assess coastal infrastructure resilience against projected storm surge events using the CLIMADA modeling framework. Quantify expected asset damage from simulated extreme weather scenarios to formulate municipal hazard adaptation strategies.

Coastal Infrastructure Resilience Specialist

Retrieve historical or probabilistic tropical cyclone and storm surge hazard sets from the CLIMADA data API.

Load port and energy asset coordinates as custom exposures and define asset-specific vulnerability functions.

Calculate probabilistic impact metrics, such as expected annual damage, by combining hazard, exposure, and vulnerability.

Output structured asset vulnerability summaries with aggregated damage projections and risk exposure tiers.

Command-line tool generating structured JSON/CSV vulnerability reports alongside visualizations of surge hazard impacts.

Query the CLIMADA Data API for relevant tropical cyclone storm surge hazard grids. Maintain local CSV or GeoJSON of critical coastal infrastructure for exposures. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

CLIMADA impact modeling Leverages the CLIMADA python library to fetch hazard data, model custom exposures, and execute impact calculations for risk assessment.

pydantic-ai, climada, pandas, geopandas. Orchestrates the data retrieval and impact assessment tasks while structuring output vulnerability reports into strictly typed schemas. Language model supporting strict schema enforcement for generating spatial hazard mitigation briefs and structuring report outputs.

Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.

Successfully fetches storm surge hazard matrices via the CLIMADA API.

Defines and computes impact combinations applying vulnerability functions against asset exposures.

Outputs a valid dataset detailing expected damages and structured exposure tier classifications for each asset.

```json [ { "input": { "facility_id": "PORT-DOCK-88", "asset_value_usd": 5000000, "hazard_scenario": "100_year_surge", "calculated_damage_usd": 250000 }, "expected_output": { "facility_id": "PORT-DOCK-88", "damage_ratio": 0.05, "exposure_tier": "MODERATE", "adaptation_recommendation": "IMPROVE_DRAINAGE_AND_ELEVATE_EQUIPMENT" } }, { "input": { "facility_id": "ENERGY-SUBSTATION-02", "asset_value_usd": 12000000, "hazard_scenario": "100_year_surge", "calculated_damage_usd": 4800000 }, "expected_output": { "facility_id": "ENERGY-SUBSTATION-02", "damage_ratio": 0.4, "exposure_tier": "CRITICAL", "adaptation_recommendation": "CONSTRUCT_SEAWALL_REVETMENT" } } ] ```

Supplies advisory spatial risk modeling metrics; does not replace licensed geotechnical, civil engineering, or actuarial surveys. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Supplies advisory spatial risk modeling metrics; does not replace licensed geotechnical, civil engineering, or actuarial surveys. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Successfully fetches storm surge hazard matrices via the CLIMADA API. Defines and computes impact combinations applying vulnerability functions against asset exposures. Outputs a valid dataset detailing expected damages and structured exposure tier classifications for each asset.

Submission format

Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
4 scoring checks
Binary
1 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
3 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

Complete workflow

Retrieve historical or probabilistic tropical cyclone and storm surge hazard sets from the CLIMADA data API. Load port and energy asset coordinates as custom exposures and define asset-specific vulnerability functions. Calculate probabilistic impact metrics, such as expected annual damage, by combining hazard, exposure, and vulnerability. Output structured asset vulnerability summaries with aggregated damage projections and risk exposure tiers.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 2

Correctness and evidence

Successfully fetches storm surge hazard matrices via the CLIMADA API. Defines and computes impact combinations applying vulnerability functions against asset exposures. Outputs a valid dataset detailing expected damages and structured exposure tier classifications for each asset.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 3

Review interface

Command-line tool generating structured JSON/CSV vulnerability reports alongside visualizations of surge hazard impacts.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 4

Safe execution

Supplies advisory spatial risk modeling metrics; does not replace licensed geotechnical, civil engineering, or actuarial surveys.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Retrieve historical or probabilistic tropical cyclone and storm surge hazard sets from the CLIMADA data API.

  • Load port and energy asset coordinates as custom exposures and define asset-specific vulnerability functions.

  • Calculate probabilistic impact metrics, such as expected annual damage, by combining hazard, exposure, and vulnerability.

  • Output structured asset vulnerability summaries with aggregated damage projections and risk exposure tiers.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Query the CLIMADA Data API for relevant tropical cyclone storm surge hazard grids. Maintain local CSV or GeoJSON of critical coastal infrastructure for exposures. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

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Pydantic AI

Typed Python agent framework.

Evaluated output

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Evaluation checks
  • Retrieve historical or probabilistic tropical cyclone and storm surge hazard sets from the CLIMADA data API...
  • Successfully fetches storm surge hazard matrices via the CLIMADA API. Defines and computes impact combinati...
  • Command-line tool generating structured JSON/CSV vulnerability reports alongside visualizations of surge ha...
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 2 configured tools

Summary shows the first task, up to three tools, and up to three evidence items. Open the technical recipe to view all configured items.

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • Pydantic AI · Optional
Orchestration
  • Pydantic AI · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Complete workflow · Weight 40
  • Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
  • Review interface · Weight 20
  • Safe execution · Weight 10

Reference cases

  • 2 public reference cases

Workflow tasks

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