Weather Risk



"There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends. ~Arnot Sheppard

Companies
List from Artemis.bm MarketView

Hedging
CelsiusPro

Chicago Weather Brokerage

Consus
 * Forecasts
 * case study - power

Coriolis Capital

EDF Trading

Evolution Markets

Galileo Weather Risk Management

GlobalAgRisk specializes in developing innovative financial instruments for agricultural and weather risk managemen

ICAP

Mitsui-Sumitomo Insurance Company
 * MSI Guaranteed Weather
 * Vortex Insurance
 * purchased Weather Risk Management system and assets of Aquila Merchant Services

Nephila Capital
 * interview part1, part 2

Rainprotection.net

RenaissanceRe
 * contact
 * Weather Risk and Commodity Trading

Spectron

Storm Exchange - inactive
 * profile
 * Wikipedia

Tradition
 * Tradition brokers

Vyapar Capital Market Partners
 * The Beast - electronic trading platform for exchange-cleared over-the-counter (OTC) weather derivatives

WeatherBill
 * built the world's first real-time 2-year forward weather simulation system. The simulation system powers a real-time pricing and risk management platform, that is certainly at the forefront of a burgeoning and unique asset class - weather. We are trying to grow this potentially $3Trillion+ industry by applying technology to enable simpler, faster, more automated and more efficient transfer of weather risk.
 * Use WeatherBill To Bet On The Weather
 * Wikipedia article
 * WeatherBill predicts bright future in weather insurance

Weather Pro
 * broker of CelsiusPro products in Australia

XL Weather & Energy - inactive

Refund / Bonus
MeteoBonus of Airsavings
 * in use at Smartwings airline

Nikon Meteo Cashback
 * "If it rains on Easter (2 to 5 April 2010) on three days at the selected weather station, you get the FULL PRICE of your Nikon Nikon Camera refunded!"

Walkers Rainy Days promotion

RainCheck of WeahterBill

Weather Refund Promotions from Milltown Insurance Group

Other
BRAVE Partners
 * Weather risk brochure

Trust Insurance Brokers

Weather Risk Management Services in Australia

Exchanges
CME Group - Weather products
 * publications
 * CME DataSuite
 * CME Group Magazine

Eurex - Weather Derivatives (Hurricane Futures)

Hurricane Risk Landfall Options
 * Weather Risk Solutions
 * press

METNEXT
 * WeatherIndices

Weather Info
AccuWeather

HAMweather
 * warnings

Weather Channel

Weather Underground

Business Intelligence
Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) (member of Verisk Analytics Family of Companies)
 * Industry Insights

AWIS Weather Services

Climpact
 * Climate information for business intelligence
 * Weather Competitiveness - How can your business benefit from it?

CustomWeather

EuroTempest

ForecastWatch forecast accuracy monitoring

G2 Weather Intelligence

MDA EarthSat Weather alternative URL
 * Climetrix
 * Cropcast Ag

MeteoRisk (FR)

PC Weather Products

Planalytics
 * news coverage
 * search for PDFs
 * Youtube channel

Prescient Weather
 * High-Resolution Weather Modeling

Speedwell Weather alternative URL1, URL2
 * stations
 * station monitor

Stormpulse

Telvent, former DTN Meteorlogix

Weather 2000
 * Agriculture, Commodities & Livestock

WeatherData Services, an AccuWeather company
 * SkyGuard

Weather Decision Technologies

WeatherPredict Consulting, membeer of RenaissanceRe

Weather Trends
 * Business Weather Network Video
 * Business-weather planning and forecasting platform guide
 * Commodity Weather blog
 * Retail Weather Blog
 * Twitter
 * Weather Trends International Lands $4.5 Million in Series A Funding
 * Ex-Wal-Mart Exec to Lead Technology Integration for Suppliers

Weather Window

WxRisk forecasting

WxWorx weather data
 * XM WX Satellite Weather trial

Remote Sensing
EarthSat

RapidEye

sarmap

Investing

 * run a portfolio across all regions and types of derivative, diversifying positions and making money through the optimization of risk
 * arbitrage between weather derivatives and commodity derivatives
 * use meteorologist to forecast the weather over three to six months in an attempt to identify bargain contracts
 * intraday trading

Cumulus - long-short equity fund which seeks to profit from the financial impacts of climate change
 * Cumulus climate fund launched on PCE platform

Pyrenees - closed
 * Pyrenees To Trade Asian Weather Contracts
 * Weather fund Pyrenees closes, traders set up weather desk at Sempra

Ramsey Quantitative Systems
 * Ramsey Readies Commodities Fund With Weather Twist

Other
Clifford Chance lawyers - environmental and climatic trading group
 * Environmental and Climatic Derivatives
 * Claude Brown - partner, derivatives and structured products

Low Pressure weather store

Meteo Systems rainfall control

Weather Equipment ,

China
China plans weather insurance to help farmers

Exploring Possibilities for Weather Insurance in the Chinese Insurance Market

India
Indian agricultural weather market could reach $7bn in 5 years

Weather risk management: a Rs 10,500 cr business in India

Indian Weather Market Could See Dramatic Growth, Says Weather Risk Management Association

Millea Group launches Weather Insurance in India

Weather Derivative in India

Weather futures can help investors tide over climate-related uncertainties

Insurance firm settles claims of weather insurance policy

Cotton farmers in Andhra to get weather insurance

Commodity hedging through weather derivatives: An option for Indian farmers

India - Public-Private-Community Partnership: The Dungarpur Initiative

Companies
BASIX India

Skymet
 * Betting on the Weather Gods

Weather Risk Management company
 * 75 Startups You Can Bet On

Events
Workshop of National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture

Russia
Google search - weather derivatives, погодные риски, погодные деривативы, погодные производные

Russia proposes insuring farmers

RTS - Производные инструменты на погодуEN
 * Погодные фьючерсы. Все на торговлю градусами!
 * РТС намерена начать торговлю срочными контрактами на температуру воздуха

Метеоагентство Росгидромета - Страхование погодных рисков

Погодные деривативы – перспективный продукт хеджирования рисков

Что такое погодные деривативы?

Погодные производные и возможности их применения в России

Фьючерсный контракт на погоду

International Organizations
International Finance Corporation
 * Global Index Insurance Facility brochure

International Fund for Agricultural Development

United Nations World Food Programme
 * The Potential for Scale and Sustainability in Weather Index Insurance PDF

United Nations Development Programme
 * What will it take to achieve the Millennium Development Goals section 5.5 "Climate adaptation and low-carbon development", PDF

United Nations Environment Programme

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
 * WMO Disaster Risk Reduction Programme
 * Experts Meeting on Requirements of Catastrophe Insurance and Weather Risk Management Markets full list of events
 * Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
 * High-tech Weather Services in Africa

Professional Associations
WRMA Weather Risk Management Association
 * meeting 2010 ,
 * presentations archive

LinkedIn - Weather Derivatives and Weather Risk

National Meteorological Services
links, links 2

Japan - Meteorological Agency
 * next-generation high resolution meso-scale atmosphere model, GPU Acceleration of Weather Prediction Model

Switzerland - MeteoSwiss

UK - Metoffice

Ukraine - Hydrometeorological Center

United States - National Weather Service
 * www.weather.gov
 * National Centers for Environmental Prediction
 * Climate Prediction Center

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
 * Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
 * Climate Program Office
 * Earth System Research Laboratory
 * Current and Anticipated Precipitation Anomalies over the U.S.

National Drought Mitigation Center
 * Drought Monitor

El Nino
El Nino at Wikipedia

El Nino / Southern Oscillation page US National Weather Service

Events
Weather Risk Management 08

2 Degrees – Weather, Humans and Their Climate focuses on our many-sided relationships to the weather and climate.

Planalytics events
 * AgriBusiness Weather Intelligence Symposium

Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop 2008, 2009

Other
Tornado Videos

UnrealWeather photographing and filming today’s unreal weather

Extreme Weather Heroes of Green Cross Australia