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Firms finance and the weather: the UK weather derivatives market
… change is motivating businesses to evaluate the weather sensitivity of their operations and earnings. Persistent changes in day-to-day weather, such as a warmer than average winter, may prove very costly for businesses and since 1997 a new financial market has grown up around the mitigation of …
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Pricing Weather Derivatives
The impact of the weather on everyday life is well documented. Businesses must hedge this impact. Faced with increased market deregulation, competition for business is keener than ever, hence businesses can no longer just transfer the burden of falling revenues to consumers. In this thesis, we …
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Late Summer Weather
<p>Late Summer Weather portrays Northern Californians and Southerners who are forced to deal with failed careers, misguided artistic pursuits and awkward attempts at romance. Set against the backdrop of California's economic decline, the story takes place in Sacramento's vibrant and somewhat …
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Talk About the Weather
Short story collection.
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Talk About the Weather
Short story collection.
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Effects of Graphical Weather Information versus Textual Weather Information on Situation Awareness in Meteorology
… gather meteorological information to assess the weather conditions pertaining to their flight and to make decisions based on it. This information can come in various formats, such as text and graphical weather information. Research has shown that people have varying learning preferences and that …
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Hidden Weather and Other Stories
<p>This project includes 10 stories, some of which contain related characters, and many of which make use of various devices and tropes of the magic realist tradition. It’s important to note that all of my stories express an attitude toward reality that is in keeping with Magical Realism: the …
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Data-Driven Detection of En-route Convective Weather Avoidance and Development of a Weather Assessment Model
Convective weather has significant impacts on aviation operations around the world. It reduces available airspace capacity, and avoidance of hazardous convective systems increases the workload for both pilots and air traffic controllers. Optimizing airspace use in the presence of constantly …
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Statistical models for extreme weather events
Western Europe is typically prone to extreme weather events during the winter months, which typically take the form of windstorms or flooding. The storm Desmond brought strong winds and heavy rain to Ireland, northern England and Scotland in December 2015, resulting in an estimated $500 million …
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Numerical methods for weather derivatives pricing
Weather derivatives are financial products used to hedge non-catastrophic weather risks with a weather index as an underlying asset. Mispricing these contracts poses a significant risk due the nature of weather variable. On rainfall derivatives pricing, the rainfall process is considered to be a …
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Airport capacity and regional weather modeling
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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Enhanced weather modelling for dynamic line rating
… ratings.;This thesis describes (a) weather-based models to estimate probabilistic forecasts of steady-state DLRs for up to three 10-minutes time steps ahead for a particular span and a complete overhead line (OHL) and also (b) a fast-computational weather-based approach to …
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Probable maximum flooding using quantitative weather radar
Reservoir spillways are designed to pass extreme flood events without significant damage. For Category A dams in the UK (whereby a breach will endanger lives in a community), designs are based on the Probable Maximum Flood (PMF) arising from the critical duration Probable Maximum Precipitation …
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Novel post-processing applications in weather science
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Statistical methods for weather-related insurance claims
Severe weather events, for instance, heavy rainfall, snow-melt or droughts, cause large losses of lives and money every year. Insurance companies offer some form of protection against such undesirable outcomes, and decision makers want to take precautions to prevent future catastrophes. Both, …
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Weather, climate change and dengue in Mexico
… empirical relationships between dengue, weather, and El Ni˜no in several regions of the world. Some of these studies used their model estimations to predict the potential impacts of climate change on the future distribution of dengue. Often, these studies have sidestepped elements that …
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Enhancing surveillance video captured in inclement weather
… the visibility of images captured in inclement weather. The system is entirely automatic and is specifically tailored for use with regular surveillance cameras. Estimating what an image captured in fog would have looked like in good visibility conditions requires knowing the depth information of …
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