Improved estimates of the European winter windstorm climate and the risk of reinsurance loss using climate model data

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2092-2120

  Della Marta, Paul M ^a   Liniger, Mark A ^a   Appenzeller, Christof ^a   Bresch, David N ^b   KöLlner Heck, Pamela ^b,c   Muccione, Veruska ^b  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS REINSURANCE COMPANY   (Switzerland)

^c Bundesamt fur Umweltschutz   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDED VALUES; BIAS CORRECTION; CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; CLIMATE FORECASTS; CLIMATE MODEL; CURRENT ESTIMATES; DATA SETS; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ERGODICS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; EXTREME VALUE ANALYSIS; GENERALIZED PARETO DISTRIBUTIONS; L-MOMENTS; LOSS MODEL; REANALYSIS; RETURN PERIODS; SAMPLE SIZES; SAMPLING TECHNIQUE;

CLIMATOLOGY; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SAMPLING; STORMS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND EFFECTS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATOLOGY; STORM; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

EUROPE;

EID: 77958471358     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2133.1     Document Type: Article

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