Papers and Presentations about storm hazard modeling

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Papers

• Watson, 1995: The Arbiter Of Storms: A High Resolution, GIS based system for integrated storm hazard modeling. National Weather Digest, Vol. 20, Nr. 2. PDF, 9.3 Meg.
• Johnson and Watson 1999: Hurricane return period estimation. Preprints, 10th Symp. on Global Change Studies, Dallas, TX, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 478-479. PDF, 59k.
• Watson and Johnson, 1999: Design, Implementation, and Operation of a modular integrated tropical cyclone hazard model. Conference on Tropical Cyclone Meterology, Dallas, TX, Amer. Meteor. Soc. PDF, 90k, Expanded version PDF, 341k.
• Watson, 2002a: Using Integrated Mulihazard Numerical Models in Coastal Storm Hazard Planning. Solutions to Coastal Disasters 02, conference proceedings Feb 24-27 2002, San Diego, CA. PDF, 47k
• Watson, 2002b: Implications of climate change for coastal hazard modeling. Solutions to Coastal Disasters 02, conference proceedings Feb 24-27 2002, San Diego, CA. PDF, 47k
• Watson, Johnson, and Simons, 2004: Insurance Rate Filings and Hurricane Loss Estimation Models, J. Insurance Regulation, 22, Nr. 3. PDF, 1.2Meg
• Watson and Johnson, 2004. "Hurricane Loss Estimation Models, Opportunities for Improving the State of the Art," Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 85, 1713-1726. PDF, 3.7 Meg.
• Iman, Johnson, and Watson, 2006. "Statistical Aspects of Hurricane Forecasting and Planning," The American Statistician, 85, 1713-1726. PDF, 3.7 Meg.
• Watson and Johnson, 2006. "Real-Time Prediction of Shut-in Production from Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico" Society of Petroleum Engineers ATCR Conference, San Antonio, TX. PDF, 307K
• Johnson and Watson, 2006. "Fitting Statistical Distributions to Data in Hurricane Modeling", scheduled to appear, J. PDF, 276K.

Presentations

• Presentation at the 2003 National Hurricane Conference on advanced storm modeling techniques PDF, 1.8 Meg.
• Natural Hazard Data for Local Mitigation Strategies (the MEMPHIS and ELVIS systems). PDF, 1.9 Meg.
• Using satellite remote sensing (SRTM,ETM) to build input data bases for storm hazard modeling PDF, 2.2 Meg.
• Presentation at the 2005 National Hurricane Conference on modeling hurricane losses PDF, 1.3 Meg.