Risk Assessment of Fog in Yangshan Deep Water Port

Natural disaster risk, as disasters research hot spot and the core problem, has caused wide attention of scholars at home and abroad. Fog is a meteorological disaster; however, little information is available in literature about the assessment of fog risk. Yangshan Deep Water Port Area is located in the Yangtze River estuary. In spring there often forms fog weather, and the fog lasts for a long time. The fog weather brings great harm to the port. Yangshan Deep Water Port Area possesses an important strategic position in the development of Shanghai; it will suffer more economic losses when it confronted meteorological disasters because of its special location and economic status. From the perspective of risk analysis, the paper analyzed hazard bearing bodies which could be exposured to the fog. According to foreign loss estimation methods, the present study attempted to establish different loss estimation methods to calculate economic losses of different hazard bearing bodies. By constructing risk assessment model for risk assessment. The results provide important baselines for the local government policy-making and management of fog risk control, and the method of fog risk assessment can be applied in other cities or regions to provide guidance on fog risk control.