Description: January 2021 update on activities of the Catastrophe and Climate Research Program.

Description: Excel file supporting weather extremes report.

Description: Excel supporting spreadsheet.

Description: Actuarial weather extremes, November 2020

Description: This report examines three extreme weather phenomena in December 2020: Continuing drought in the Western United States, heavy precipitation, snowfall, and flood in the Eastern U.S., and ranking 2020 global land and ocean temperature vs previous annual averages of the last 141 years.

Description: This report provides a comprehensive guide for actuaries, insurance companies and regulators to understand the scope and challenges of earthquake risk and insurance in the U.S. It also looks at Canada and Puerto Rico due to their proximity.

Description: This report provides a methodology for identifying climate regime shifts in different scenarios to prepare insurers for the impacts of climate change. It discusses physical tipping points, socio-economic tipping points, and regime shifts affecting the insurance industry, with a focus on wildfires in California and heat stress in the Pacific Northwest.

Description: This research report educates the actuarial community about the various shades of the flood risk as well as the state of the art in quantitative flood risk modeling.

Description: This report highlights major weather stories that unfolded across the month of March 2020.

Description: On June 29, a weather system formed in the central Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of the Cabo Verde Islands. The system intensified as it traveled in a westerly direction across the Atlantic, achieving sufficient strength to be classified as a tropical storm on July 1, whereupon it was given the name “Elsa”.