Welcome to CLIMADA!#
CLIMADA is a free and open-source software framework for climate risk assessment and adaptation option appraisal. Designed by a large scientific community, it helps researchers, policymakers, and businesses analyse the impacts of natural hazards and explore adaptation strategies.
CLIMADA is primarily developed and maintained by the Weather and Climate Risks Group at ETH Zürich.
If you use CLIMADA for your own scientific work, please reference the appropriate publications according to the Citation Guide.
This is the documentation of the CLIMADA core module which contains all functionalities necessary for performing climate risk analysis and appraisal of adaptation options. Modules for generating different types of hazards and other specialized applications can be found in the CLIMADA Petals module.
Useful links: WCR Group | CLIMADA Petals | CLIMADA website | Mailing list
Getting started with CLIMADA: How to install? What are the basic concepts and functionalities?
Want to go more in depth? Check out the User guide. It contains detailed tutorials on the different concepts, modules and possible usage of CLIMADA.
The reference guide contains a detailed description of the CLIMADA API. The API reference describes each module, class, methods and functions.
Saw a typo in the documentation? Want to improve existing functionalities? Want to extend them? The contributing guidelines will guide you through the process of improving CLIMADA.
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Date: Jun 04, 2025 Version: 6.0.2-dev
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Copyright (C) 2017 ETH Zurich, CLIMADA contributors listed in AUTHORS.md.
CLIMADA is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3.
CLIMADA is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with CLIMADA. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.