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On the systemic nature of weather risk [PDF]
Agricultural Finance Review, 2010 PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to assess the losses of weather‐related insurance at different regional levels. The possibility of spatial diversification of insurance is explored by estimating the joint occurrence on unfavorable weather conditions in different locations, looking particularly at the tail behavior of the loss distribution.Design ...
Xu, Wei +3 more
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Weather derivatives: Business hedge instrument from weather risks [PDF]
Bankarstvo, 2014 In the late 1990s, a new financial market was developed - a market for weather derivatives, so that the risk managers could hedge their exposure to weather risk. After a rather slow start, the weather derivatives market had started to grow rapidly.
Đorđević Bojan S., Đorđević Mira
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Summertime response of ozone and fine particulate matter to mixing layer meteorology over the North China Plain [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2023 Measurements of surface ozone (O3), PM2.5 and its major secondary components (SO42-, NO3-, NH4+, and organic carbon (OC)), mixing layer height (MLH), and other meteorological parameters were made in the North China Plain (NCP) during the warm season ...
J. Wang +7 more
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Research Themes, Trends and Future Priorities in the Field of Climate Change and Health: A Review
Atmosphere, 2022 Climate change is one of the biggest threats to human living and health in the 21st century. Whilst a large number of papers have been published addressing the health impact of climate change, there is a lack of comprehensive bibliometric analysis in the
Huiling Ouyang, Xu Tang, Renhe Zhang
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GloFAS-ERA5 operational global river discharge reanalysis 1979–present [PDF]
Earth System Science Data, 2020 Estimating how much water is flowing through rivers at the global scale is challenging due to a lack of observations in space and time. A way forward is to optimally combine the global network of earth system observations with advanced numerical weather ...
S. Harrigan +15 more
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Application of air derivative financial instruments in Lithuanian economy
Mokslas: Lietuvos Ateitis, 2020 The paper explores the concept of weather derivatives: what it is, what its features are, and in what areas they can be applied. It has been established that there can be several types of weather derivative instruments – options and swaps.
Ernesta Latvytė +1 more
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Space Weather, 2005 The importance of space weather to society is in a continuous increase since we are more and more dependent on reliable spaceborne and ground‐based technological systems. Physical processes involved in space weather constitute a complicated chain from the Sun to the Earth's surface, so the management of space weather risks requires expertise in many ...
Risto Pirjola +4 more
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Persistent La Niñas drive joint soybean harvest failures in North and South America [PDF]
Earth System Dynamics, 2023 Around 80 % of global soybean supply is produced in southeast South America (SESA), central Brazil (CB) and the United States (US) alone. This concentration of production in few regions makes global soybean supply sensitive to spatially compounding ...
R. Hamed +6 more
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Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2022 It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the planet, which is seriously affecting the planetary health including human health. Adapting climate change should not only be a slogan, but requires a united, holistic action and a paradigm shift from ...
Renhe Zhang +25 more
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Increasing Weather Risk: Fact or Fiction? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 It is an undisputed fact that weather risk increases over time due to climate change. However, qualification of this statement with regard to the type of weather risk and geographical location is needed. We investigate the application of novel statistical tools for assessing changes in weather risk over time.
Weining Wang +3 more
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