CGFI Hackathon 2025 – Global characteristics of tropical cyclones: climate risk analytics for the reinsurance industry

Date: 10-11 June 2025 

Location: Leeds, UK

This Hackathon brings together researchers and practitioners to investigate questions related to climate model data, and especially tropical cyclones, of relevance for the reinsurance industry (companies who insure insurers).

One specific question of interest is what is the probability of landfalling hurricanes on the south-east coast of the US within the same tropical cyclone season as landfalling typhoons in Japan, which is of interest to reinsurers who need a global perspective on risk.

Using observations (including re-analysis), decadal and open-source stochastic datasets this will be investigated from a historical, counterfactual, and statistical perspective. In addition, we will also explore whether probabilities of correlated events can be inferred for the next 5-10 years.

ASPECT partners are involved and participating in the organisation of this workshop.

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