Potential Economic Value of Seasonal Hurricane Forecasts

This paper explores the potential utility of seasonal Atlantic hurricane forecasts to a hypothetical property insurance firm whose insured properties are broadly distributed along the U.S. Gulf and East Coasts. Using a recently developed hurricane synthesizer driven by large-scale meteorological var...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Emanuel, Kerry Andrew, Fondriest, Fabian, Kossin, James P.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Meteorological Society 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75075
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2066-2082