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Challenges in assessing landfall risk from Japanese Typhoons
Today, we feature a post from guest blogger Dr Richard Dixon, a catastrophe risk modelling expert with over 20 years of experience in meteorological research,
InCyc: A Global Tropical Cyclone Insights Database
Introducing InCyc, a global database of over 200 high-resolutions Tropical Cyclone simulations. reask is using this, along with our machine learning technology, to create the next generation of TC risk products.
Guest Blog | Sea-level and coastal impacts: A rising tide lifts all risks
This blog is the first in a series of content provided by guest authors. Today, we feature a post from Dr Jan Zika, a specialist
How did our global TC forecast stack up to observations over the past 12 months?
The Southern hemisphere tropical cyclone season is now officially over, concluding a first full year of forecasting for us at reask. In the past 12
2018 season review: Northern Hemisphere
Last Friday marked the end of the official hurricane season for both the North Atlantic (NA) and Eastern Pacific (EP) basins, providing a great opportunity
Voices.Earth – a podcast interview with reask co-founder Nick Hassam
reask’s global approach to catastrophe risk forecasting and modelling is accurately reflected in our .earth domain name. Co-founder Nick Hassam sat down recently with Voices.earth
“Machine Learning and Tropical Cyclone Risk Modeling” – Data Science Sydney
Almost 3 months after initial release of our 2018 Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Forecast we were invited to give a talk introducing our modeling approach to
Our 2018 hurricane forecast explained
The numbers At the beginning of June we released reask’s inaugural tropical cyclone genesis forecast for the northern hemisphere. Of course we have spent a
The Future of Catastrophe Modelling
A year ago I presented the results of a survey at the 15th Catastrophe Insurance Conference in Asia, on the potential for disruption of catastrophe
Zoom in on our North Atlantic Hurricane Genesis Module
The genesis module from our global tropical cyclone model was released earlier this month, and provides a good opportunity to showcase some of the building
Cutting-Edge Catastrophe Tools for Cutting-Edge Insurers
As many in the insurance industry understand, catastrophe modelling was once seen as the original Insurtech. Born in the shadow of the large catastrophes of
A globally connected & predictive view of earth system risk
The Earth system is globally connected and assessing its risk requires a globally connected view. At reask we are building all our models with this
Some thoughts on probabilistic forecasting
Probabilistic forecasts can easily be misinterpreted and since they are at the core of everything we do at reask we thought we’d try and lay