The 2004 Hurricane Season in Context: Potential Impact on Risk Modeling

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With four major storms making landfall in Florida and Alabama in the space of six weeks, the 2004 season has highlighted the potential for hurricanes to exhibit spatio-temporal clustering. The fact that a series of storms impacted the same region (and even the same county in Florida) amplified the total economic and insurance losses to be significantly greater than if the same storms had occurred over different seasons. Clustering is a result of climatological persistence: when the conditions that determine the generation and tracks of storms remain stable for several weeks. This paper provides some background to the phenomenon of clustering in Atlantic hurricanes and its impact on hurricane loss modeling.

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