Academic Resources

Directories
ScienceGate - weather risk

Academia.edu - Researchers interested in weather risk

[http://weather-climate.com/ Research Papers on Weather and Climate by Harvey Stern Ph. D.]

Centers
European Institute of Innovation and Technology: Climate-KIC
 * Pioneers into Practice programme with 90 participants will be launched in October 2010

NCCR Climate
 * Climate Risks for the Economy and Society
 * Climate Change and Agricultural Production Risks
 * Optimal Weather Insurance Design with Climate Change – The Case of Agriculture in Switzerland

Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science of ETH Zurich
 * Prof. Stefan Brönnimann

International Research Institute for Climate and Society of Columbia University
 * Projects Listing
 * Index insurance and climate risk: Prospects for development and disaster management PDF
 * Weather Index Insurance Education Tool
 * Global Monitoring Analyses, Climatologies and Reports

ProClim - Forum for Climate and Global Change

Index Insurance Innovation Initiative

Willis Chair in Climate and Weather Risk for Insurance
 * Linking business and science to address climate and weather risk
 * Willis Funds New Professorship for Climate, Weather Risk Insurance

Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre

Earth Sciences
International Society for Agricultural Meteorology
 * Meeting, Congresses, Conference & Training

PRISM climate mapping system
 * system that uses point measurements of precipitation, temperature, and other climatic factors to produce continuous, digital grid estimates of monthly, yearly, and event-based climatic parameters

EarthLabs
 * drought studies

Jim Roemer
 * weather view articles at STORM

Dr. Bahri Uzunoglu LinkedIn

Brian J. Etherton
 * Economic Impacts of Weather

WxChallenge North American collegiate weather forecasting competition
 * teams

Minnesota Climatology Working Group
 * WeatherTalk - commentaries by climatologist and meteorologist Mark Seeley

Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
 * Weather and Climate Data

Master program

Remote Sensing
The Earth Observation Network

Remote Sensing of Vegetation

Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program

Remote Sensing Laboratories of University of Zurich
 * ReSe

satellite crop yields site:ch

Agricultural Finance and Economics
European Association of Agricultural Economists
 * congress in Zurich, Switzerland on August 30-September 3, 2011

Economic Value of Weather and Climate Forecasts - Agriculture

Dr. Wei Xu

Calum Turvey

Jerry R. Skees

Finance and Math
Jean-Paul Laurent Professor of Finance, ISFA Actuarial School

Dr. Brenda Lopez Cabrera
 * Localizing Temperature Risk presentation at Bachelier Finance Society

Stephen Jewson

Fred Espen Benth

Publications
Journal of Risk and Insurance

Quantitative Finance

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Agricultural Finance Review

OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Working Papers

Papers
The Value of Long-Term Climate Forecast Information in Weather Index Insurance

Modeling the Dynamics of Temperature with a View to Weather Derivatives

Index Insurance, Probabilistic Climate Forecasts, and Production PDF

Using Data Mining Techniques for Estimating Minimum, Maximum and Average Daily Temperature Values

Major Growth in Some Business-Related Uses of Climate Information

Index Insurance for Climate Risk Management & Poverty Reduction

Addressing Credit and Basis Risk Arising From Hedging Weather-Related Risk with Weather Derivatives

Measuring the dependence structure between yield and weather variables

Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009

Events
agenda of the Swiss climate community by NCCR Climate

Ph.D. Workshop on International Climate Policy by Center for Comparative and International Studies

"Weather Derivatives and Risk" Workshop
 * Weather Derivatives: Modeling and Pricing
 * The pricing of temperature futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange

Tropentag 2010: World food system – A contribution from Europe