Abstract: The concept and applications of weather derivatives and weather insurance are introduced. Proper analysis of these financial instruments requires both statistical knowledge and thorough understanding of the physical weather ...

Abstract: A method of determining surface pressures in oceanic storm systems using ERS-1 scatterometer data is employed to determine the lowest pressures in 25 storms. This method uses the surface winds as a lower boundary condition ...

Abstract: Satellite scatterometer winds are commonly validated by comparing them to buoy observations and/or numerical model surface wind analyses. However, the empirical scatterometer algorithm (geophysical model function) has been ...

Abstract: The values of surface winds simulated by the University of Washington (UW) two-layer similarity planetary boundary layer (PBL) model are compared with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Hurricane Research ...