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National Weather Service Launches Advance Warning Disaster Model
Neighborhoods about to be hit by tornadoes and pilots heading into turbulence will get more warning from the National Weather Service starting today. At least, that's the promise of a new forecast ...
AIR Worldwide Updates U.S. Severe Thunderstorm Model, Unveils Crop Hail Model
Catastrophe risk modeler AIR Worldwide has updated its Severe Thunderstorm Model for the United States, including significant enhancements to all three model components: hazard, engineering and ...
RMS CEO Shah Confronts Delays With Cat Modeling Platform Rollout
RMS launched its Exceedance 2014 conference in Washington, D.C. on April 14 with a hard sell of RMS(one), a cloud-based catastrophe risk management system the California company hopes will modernize ...
RMS Signs on 5 New Catastrophe Modeling Partners
RMS said it inked partnerships with five additional companies in a bid to further diversify catastrophe modeling options for its new cutting-edge system. Financial terms were not disclosed. The ...
21 Insurers, Brokers Launch Oasis ‘Open Source’ Cat Model
The Oasis Loss Modelling Framework has unveiled what it describes as "the most significant development in the modelling of natural catastrophe losses for 20 years"—the launch of an independent, ...
How To Own Your Risk: AIR Worldwide Explains Touchstone
Released in January 2013, AIR Worldwide's Touchstone modeling platform was five years in the making, according to the catastrophe modeling firm's new chief operating officer. Below, Bill Churney, a ...
Is My Data Safe On The RMS Cloud?
Two months after RMS announced the launch of RMS(one)—a cloud-based platform for catastrophe models, exposure measurement tools and related data—RMS's leader took to the blogosphere to address ...
RMS(one) Explained
When RMS developed its recently unveiled software platform RMS(one), the catastrophe modeling firm had a wide range of potential users in mind—many of whom are not accustomed to tinkering around ...