Historical weather data for climate risk assessment

Climate and Weather Risk Assessment for Agricultural Planning

On developing a historical fire weather data-set for Australia

The study of past weather and climate is a crucial step in understanding the world around us. Weather and climate vary across the entire spectrum of temporal and spatial scales. This variability provides an envelope for human society, impacting our health and resource availability while setting the stage for natural disasters. Study of the past can assist in understanding the changes expected i...

Stochastic Models for Pricing Weather Derivatives using Constant Risk Premium

‎Pricing weather derivatives is becoming increasingly useful‎, ‎especially in developing economies‎. ‎We describe a statistical model based approach for pricing  weather derivatives by modeling and forecasting daily average temperatures data which exhibits long-range dependence‎. ‎We pre-process the temperature data by filtering for seasonality and volatility an...

The Weather and Climate Impact Assessment Science Initiative

This initiative is composed of three elements, which were chosen based on consideration of recurring themes and issues that have emerged in assessments of the effects of climate variability and change on human society and the environment, and in which there are important research gaps. The two most recent noteworthy assessments have provided considerable material for consideration of the state ...

Weather and Climate Forecasting

The Biblical quotation above is an ancient example of attempting to make meteorological predictions based on empirical observations. The idea it contains tends to work as a forecasting scheme, and it has been expressed in many different ways in the subsequent 2,000 years. it is one of many sayings and rhymes of folklore that provide a qualitative description of the weather. In the 17th century,...