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| Article | Introduction to the Willis Research Network | 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 |  |
| Presentation | Texas Triple Threat Seminar | 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 | |
| Paper | WRN release latest research bulletin on insurance risk from volcanic eruptions in Europe | 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 | WRN European Windstorm Clustering - Briefing Paper | Atmospheric | This WRN Briefing Document provides an overview of the Serial Clustering of Intense European Windstorms paper. | |
| Paper | Serial Clustering of Intense European Windstorms | 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 | Multi-Hazard Reliability Analysis of Lifeline Networks | 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 | Fuzzy Decision Support System for Prioritization of Seismic Upgrading in Critical Infrastructure Systems | 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. | |
| Presentation | JCRP for Business and Society: A view from the Insurance Industry | WRN Related | Rowan Douglas' presentation at the Joint Climate Research Programme (JCRP) launch event in London | |
| Presentation | Storm Surge Modeling and Climatology for the New York City Metropolitan Region | Hydrological | Dr Colle's storm surge presentation from the WRN Princeton Insurers' Summit in March 2009 | |
| Presentation | Hurricanes in the Northeast United States | Atmospheric | Dr James Done's presentation on hurricane risk in the NE United States from the WRN Princeton Insurers' Summit in March 2009 | |
| Presentation | Northeast Hurricane Risk: Present and Future | Atmospheric | Prof Emanuel's presentation on NE US hurricane risk from the March 2009 WRN Princeton Insurers' Summit.
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| Presentation | The Willis Hurricane Index | Atmospheric | Dr Holland presents the Willis Hurricane Index at the March 2009 WRN Princeton Insurers' Summit | |
| Presentation | Atlantic Hurricanes and Climate Change | Atmospheric | Prof Knutson's presentation from the WRN Princeton Insurers' Summit in March 2009 | |
| Presentation | Demand Surge | Exposure & Vulnerability | Dr Anna Olsen presents her work on demand surge to the delegates at the WRN Princeton Insurers' Summit in March 2009 | |
| Presentation | Business Interruption & Lifeline Damage | Exposure & Vulnerability | Prof Porter's presentation on business interruption to the delegates at the WRN Princeton Insurers' Summit in March 2009 | |
| Presentation | Tropical Cyclones and Extreme Floods in the Eastern United States | Hydrological | Prof Smith's and Dr Villarini's presentation on extreme flood risk at the WRN Princeton Insurers' Summit in March 2009 | |
| Presentation | WRN Princeton Insurers’ Summit - Presentations | Atmospheric | Presentations from the WRN Cat 3 Hurricane in the Northeast: Insurers' Summit on 19 March 2009 | |
| Paper | Minimal Path Sets Seismic Reliability Evaluation of Lifeline Networks | 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. | |
| Presentation | WRN/LMA Seminar - Thames Flood: A Level-headed approach | Hydrological | Slides from the joint WRN/Lloyd's Market Association Seminar on Thames flood risk in February 2009 | |
| Article | Hurricane Risk at High Resolution | Atmospheric | Dr Greg Holland reveals his revolutionary research in Catastrophe Risk Management Magazine | |
| Presentation | Serial clustering of intense European storms (Poster Presentation) | Atmospheric | Poster presentation from the Conference on Teleconnections in the Atmosphere and Oceans | |
| Presentation | WRN Seminar - Supercomputers, Climate Change and Catastrophe Modelling | 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. | |
| Paper | The ShakeOut Scenario: a Hypothetical MW7.8 Earthquake on the Southern San Andreas Fault | Seismic | A summary of the most extensive earthquake planning scenario ever created for the United States | |
| Article | European Geosciences Union 2009 - Call For Papers | Flyer | The WRN's Call For Papers for the European Geosciences Union
General Assembly 2009 | |
| Paper | A Review of Demand Surge Knowledge and Modelling Practice | 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 | Reliability Analysis of Infrastructure Networks Using OBDD | Seismic | The authors of this paper propose a method for computing terminal-pair reliability of infrastructure networks based on Binary Decision Diagram (BDD) | |
| Paper | Seismic Reliability Assessment of Water Supply Systems | Seismic | This study develops a comprehensive seismic reliability model for serviceability assessment of water supply systems. | |
| Paper | A Revised Hurricane Pressure–Wind Model | Atmospheric | Dr Holland presents a new technique for relating central pressure and maximum winds in tropical cyclones | |
| Article | Insurers rise to flood challenges: Stuart Lane talks to the Financial Times | 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 | |
| Presentation | State of the Art - Willis Research Fellows present to London Market | 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. | |
| Paper | A probabilistic methodology to estimate future coastal flood risk due to sea level rise | Hydrological | This paper describes a new method for estimating future coastal flood risk that takes into account uncertainty over future sea level rise | |
| Paper | The Thames Gateway: Flood risk, planning policy and insurance loss potential | 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. | |
| Article | Climate Change at Home - UK Perspectives on the Changing Climate & Flooding | 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 | |
| Presentation | Capital Catastrophe & Climate Change - Keynote Address to the Icelandic Innovation Center | 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. | |
| Paper | Preparing for a New View of U.S. Earthquake Risk | 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) | |
| Article | Google Earth and Risk Management - A New Future | GIS & Geovisualisation | The WRN's Dr Aidan Slingsby talks Google, Geovisualisation and GIS to reinsurance magazine, The Review | |
| Paper | Priority evaluation of seismic mitigation in pipeline networks | 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 | A review of historical tropical cyclone intensity in northwestern Australia and implications for climate change trend analysis | 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. | |
| Presentation | Visualising Risk | GIS & Geovisualisation | Presentation surrounding the understanding and communication of risk though visualisation | |
| Presentation | The Clustering of Hazard Events | Atmospheric | Find out why hydrometeorological hazard events are not independent and what this means for estimates of annual losses, reinstatement premiums etc. | |
| Presentation | Global climate modelling and its application to climate catastrophe risk | Atmospheric | Can we reflect natural variability of climate in extreme weather
models? | |
| Presentation | Building inventories and geospatial data | Exposure & Vulnerability | Streamlining the creation of building inventories using remote sensing and geospatial data | |
| Presentation | Earthquake Loss Estimation: One size doesn’t fit all… | Seismic | Looking at epistemic uncertainty and alternative approaches | |
| Presentation | Southern California earthquake scenario | Seismic | A look at the most sophisticated US earthquake scenario ever | |
| Presentation | Catastrophe models, science and capital | Cat Models | Some observations and lessons about catastrophe models & science | |
| Presentation | Making urban flood risk estimates possible | Hydrological | Dr Tim Fewtrell and Prof Paul Bates reveal the secrets behind practical urban flood risk estimates | |
| Presentation | Flooding in urban catchments in the tropics | 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 | The Storm Footprint | Atmospheric | Discussion around storm footprints and the associated modelling challenges | |
| Paper | Can earthquake loss models be validated using field observations | 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 | The Visual Exploration of Insurance Data in Google Earth | GIS & Geovisualisation | Exploration of how Google Earth can be used to interactively explore exposure, catastrophic events and potential loss information | |
| Paper | The 2007 UK Summer Floods - A Scientific Perspective | Hydrological | An overview of the climatic, meteorological and hydrological characteristics of the summer 2007 flooding events | |
| Paper | A guide to getting your data into Google Earth | 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 | Top Ten Tips for using Google Earth | GIS & Geovisualisation | This paper provides ten top tips for using Google Earth effectively for visualisation | |
| Presentation | Climate Change Adaptation and Investment in Europe - WRN presentation to European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) | 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 | Predicting the next major risks | Emerging Risk | A presentation given to IEA Future of General Insurance delegates surrounding risk understanding | |
| Paper | The use of high-resolution global climate models for climate risk assessment | 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. | |
| Presentation | Know Risk: Climate change, catastrophe and the capital markets | Climate Change | Insurance and the future - a look forward to a world of climate change, catastrophes and increased responsibilities | |
| Article | Willis' Detailed Report for Winterstorm Kyrill - Feb 2007 | 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. | |
| Paper | Current and emerging insurance markets - Earthquake models and risk transfer technology | Seismic | This paper examines some of the different challenges and approaches experienced by developers of models and pools around the world | |