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Location, Location, Location: What Makes a Winds...
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While wind speed can indicate a storm’s damageability, two storms with similar peak wind speeds can cause vastly different levels of damage if…
Assessing the Risk of a Global Ebola Pandemic
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With the current outbreak of Ebola in western Africa, as well as the recent MERS coronavirus and H7N9 avian flu outbreaks, the world is…
Disaster Risk Reduction: Catastrophe Modeling Ta...
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The UN meeting room at the Palais de Nations in Geneva is oval shaped and more than 100 feet long with curved desks arranged in a series of “U…
Building Better Models Through Collaboration
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To calibrate and validate their models, catastrophe modeling firms ideally have access to large amounts of high-quality, high-resolution…
RMS and Risky Business: Modeling Climate Change ...
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Earlier this year, RMS partnered with the Risky Business Initiative, a year-long effort co-chaired by former New York City Mayor Michael…
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