Estimating rates of land falling US hurricanes on a 5-year timescale: applications for catastrophe risk modelling

Atlantic hurricanes are the costliest of US natural disasters. Their frequency, intensity and likelihood of landfall are highly variable, being impacted by sea-surface and upper-atmosphere temperatures, wind shear, El Nino, the North Atlantic Oscillation and other climatic variables. Risk Management Solutions has created a set of over 1,000,000 synthetic Atlantic hurricanes for use in catastrophe modelling.