  | Title | Fields | Summary | Published | Type |
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 | | Seismic | A review of the state-of the art of loss estimation methodology and software has been carried out as part of subproject
JRA3 of the NERIES (Network of Research Infrastructures for European Seismology) project currently being carried
out in Europe. This subproject is more specifically concerned with the development of a pan-European loss
estimation tool for rapid post-earthquake response in urban environments. Following a literature review of the most
recent developments in urban earthquake loss estimation methodology, information about existing software tools for
earthquake loss estimation has been gathered and critically reviewed. In particular, the software packages have been
examined in terms of their suitability for application in a pan-European context, and for use in a rapid
post-earthquake response situation. | | Paper |
| | Climate Change | | | Presentation |
| | General | The WRN Texas Triple Threat seminar discussed the combined impact from hurricane, tornado and hail events on Texas property owners while offering risk management solutions through the constructive use of reinsurance for property insurers.
The event was attended by over 90 companies representing property insurers, reinsurers and insurance organizations with a vested interest in understanding and managing the risk in Texas.
Attached are three presentations given by leading academic experts at the seminar:
Texas Hail and Climate Change, by Harold E. Brooks; NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Oklahoma
The Oklahoma Weather Enterprise: A Transformative Environment for Research, Education and Operations; Kelvin K. Droegemeier Office of the Vice President for Research And School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma
Determinants of Damage: Weathering the Texas Triple Threat: Hurricane, Tornado, Hail; Tim Reinhold, Ph.D., Senior Vice President of Research and Chief Engineer, Institute for Business and Home Safety
The ‘news flash’:
Texas Insurers Manage the Combined Effects from Hurricane, Tornado and Hail Events | | Presentation |
| | General | This paper, authored by Prof Robin Spence of Cambridge Architectural Research Limited, Prof Giulio Zuccaro, Scientific Director, Plinius Centre, University of Naples Federico II and Dr Rashmin Gunasekera, of Willis Analytics, provides a detailed review of risk from Vesuvius and proposes a new risk ranking of European volcanoes, with a focus on insurance risk potential. | | Paper |
| | Atmospheric | This WRN Briefing Document provides an overview of the Serial Clustering of Intense European Windstorms paper. | | Paper |
| | Seismic | Paper submitted to to ASCE conference (TCLEE 2009) to be held in Oakland in June 2009. The authors look at developing a fuzzy decision support system. | | Paper |
| | Seismic | Paper submitted to the WCCE-ECCE-TCCE Joint Conference in Turkey. Willis Research Fellow Mohammad Javanbarg and team look at the multi-hazard reliability analysis of lifeline networks. | | Paper |
| | WRN Related | Rowan Douglas' presentation at the Joint Climate Research Programme (JCRP) launch event in London | | Presentation |
| | Hydrological | Prof Smith's and Dr Villarini's presentation on extreme flood risk at the WRN Princeton Insurers' Summit in March 2009 | | Presentation |
| | Exposure & Vulnerability | Prof Porter's presentation on business interruption to the delegates at the WRN Princeton Insurers' Summit in March 2009 | | Presentation |
| | Exposure & Vulnerability | Dr Anna Olsen presents her work on demand surge to the delegates at the WRN Princeton Insurers' Summit in March 2009 | | Presentation |
| | Atmospheric | Prof Knutson's presentation from the WRN Princeton Insurers' Summit in March 2009 | | Presentation |
| | Atmospheric | Dr Holland presents the Willis Hurricane Index at the March 2009 WRN Princeton Insurers' Summit | | Presentation |
| | Atmospheric | Prof Emanuel's presentation on NE US hurricane risk from the March 2009 WRN Princeton Insurers' Summit.
| | Presentation |
| | Atmospheric | Dr James Done's presentation on hurricane risk in the NE United States from the WRN Princeton Insurers' Summit in March 2009 | | Presentation |
| | Hydrological | Dr Colle's storm surge presentation from the WRN Princeton Insurers' Summit in March 2009 | | Presentation |
| | Atmospheric | Presentations from the WRN Cat 3 Hurricane in the Northeast: Insurers' Summit on 19 March 2009 | | Presentation |
| | Seismic | Paper submitted to to ASCE conference (TCLEE 2009) to be held in Oakland in June 2009. A heuristic minimal path sets method for analysing seismic reliability of lifeline networks is proposed. | | Paper |
| | Hydrological | Slides from the joint WRN/Lloyd's Market Association Seminar on Thames flood risk in February 2009 | | Presentation |
| | Atmospheric | Dr Greg Holland reveals his revolutionary research in Catastrophe Risk Management Magazine | | Article |
| | Atmospheric | Poster presentation from the Conference on Teleconnections in the Atmosphere and Oceans | | Presentation |
| | Atmospheric | Slides from the WRN's December Seminar, including Dr Greg Holland's keynote presentation and new research from Willis Research Fellow Dr Renato Vitolo. | | Presentation |
| | Flyer | The WRN's Call For Papers for the European Geosciences Union
General Assembly 2009 | | Article |
| | Seismic | A summary of the most extensive earthquake planning scenario ever created for the United States | | Paper |
| | Atmospheric | This paper investigates how clustering of wintertime extra-tropical cyclones depends on the vorticity intensity of the windstorms, and the sampling time period over which storm transits are counted. | | Paper |
| | Exposure & Vulnerability | This state-of-the-art review summarises the research into demand surge thus far and summarises plans for a future quantitive model | | Paper |
| | Atmospheric | Discussion around storm footprints and the associated modelling challenges | | Presentation |
| | Seismic | This study develops a comprehensive seismic reliability model for serviceability assessment of water supply systems. | | Paper |
| | Seismic | The authors of this paper propose a method for computing terminal-pair reliability of infrastructure networks based on Binary Decision Diagram (BDD) | | Paper |
| | Atmospheric | Dr Holland presents a new technique for relating central pressure and maximum winds in tropical cyclones | | Paper |
| | Hydrological | Prof Stuart Lane talks to the UK's Financial Times about the Willis Research Network's new and novel ways of acquiring historical flood data | | Article |
| | Hydrological | This paper, using the Thames Gateway case study, presents an overview of flood issues in a generic context with a recognition of the difficulties of human interactions on the floodplain. | | Paper |
| | General | This document gives a concise history and ethos of the network, a full list of members and institutions, and a breakdown of the core research programme | | Article |
| | Hydrological | This paper describes a new method for estimating future coastal flood risk that takes into account uncertainty over future sea level rise | | Paper |
| | Atmospheric/Flood/Seismic | Presentations from the WRN's UK-based Fellows, given to a packed house of representatives from the London Market. Topics include Geovisualisation, General Circulation Models, Storm clustering, Urban Flood and Earthquake loss estimation. | | Presentation |
| | Atmospheric | Willis' Catastrophe Management Services has produced an in depth, comprehensive report into the most significant event on a pan-European basis since Jeanette in 2002. | | Article |
| | Seismic | This paper examines some of the different challenges and approaches experienced by developers of models and pools around the world | | Paper |
| | Climate Change | Insurance and the future - a look forward to a world of climate change, catastrophes and increased responsibilities | | Presentation |
| | Emerging Risk | A presentation given to IEA Future of General Insurance delegates surrounding risk understanding | | Presentation |
| | Climate Change | Rowan Douglas speaks to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development about the importance of managing climate risk in insurance and reinsurance markets | | Presentation |
| | Seismic | A look at how the vendor earthquake models may change in response to the recent release of new science from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) | | Paper |
| | Climate Change | Rowan Douglas' keynote presentation to the Icenlandic Innovation Center inReykjavik, examining some of the future challenges of climate change with a particular focus on Iceland. | | Presentation |
| | Climate Change | WRN's Prof Paul Bates and Prof Stuart Lane talk UK flooding, climate change and the future in this year's International Underwriting Association (IUA) World @ Risk book | | Article |
| | GIS & Geovisualisation | The WRN's Dr Aidan Slingsby talks Google, Geovisualisation and GIS to reinsurance magazine, The Review | | Article |
| | Hydrological | Using Singapore as an example, Prof Yui Liong looks at flooding in urban catchments in the tropics and examines the impact of climate change | | Presentation |
| | Hydrological | Dr Tim Fewtrell and Prof Paul Bates reveal the secrets behind practical urban flood risk estimates | | Presentation |
| | Cat Models | Some observations and lessons about catastrophe models & science | | Presentation |
| | Seismic | A look at the most sophisticated US earthquake scenario ever | | Presentation |
| | Seismic | Looking at epistemic uncertainty and alternative approaches | | Presentation |
| | Exposure & Vulnerability | Streamlining the creation of building inventories using remote sensing and geospatial data | | Presentation |
| | Atmospheric | Can we reflect natural variability of climate in extreme weather
models? | | Presentation |
| | Atmospheric | Find out why hydrometeorological hazard events are not independent and what this means for estimates of annual losses, reinstatement premiums etc. | | Presentation |
| | GIS & Geovisualisation | Presentation surrounding the understanding and communication of risk though visualisation | | Presentation |
| | Seismic | This paper develops a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process to support decision making for priority evaluation of the pipelines renewal applicable to metropolitan water distribution networks | | Paper |
| | Atmospheric | Paper examining historical tropical cyclone intensities for northwestern Australia and discussion on the potential influences on forecasting accuracy including implications for detecting climate change trends. | | Paper |
| | GIS & Geovisualisation | This document provides a step-by step account of how to load one's own data into Google Earth for visual synthesis. | | Paper |
| | Seismic | This paper uses a case study loss model to examine whether field comparisons can provide the basis for validation of an
earthquake loss model. | | Paper |
| | Atmospheric | Summary of research currently being undertaken within the Willis Research Network using highresolution, global climate models to simulate tropical cyclones in a global climate context. | | Paper |
| | Hydrological | An overview of the climatic, meteorological and hydrological characteristics of the summer 2007 flooding events | | Paper |
| | GIS & Geovisualisation | Exploration of how Google Earth can be used to interactively explore exposure, catastrophic events and potential loss information | | Paper |
| | GIS & Geovisualisation | This paper provides ten top tips for using Google Earth effectively for visualisation | | Paper |