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CEDE 11.0 Database Schema

May 30, 2023

Download the latest version of Catastrophe Exposure Database Exchange (CEDE), AIR's open source exposure data format, as well as a sample CEDE database.

CEDE Exposure Data Schema Repository

Software Downloads | 10.0
June 01, 2023

Download the latest version of Catastrophe Exposure Database Exchange (CEDE), AIR's open source exposure data format, as well as a sample CEDE database.

CEDE 11.5 Database Schema

May 30, 2023

Download the latest version of Catastrophe Exposure Database Exchange (CEDE), AIR's open source exposure data format, as well as a sample CEDE database.

2017 Hurricane Season Demand Surge Insights

White Papers | pdf - 606 Kb
October 14, 2020

We examine the economic demand surge following Hurricanes Harvey and Irma to see how they affected construction costs and market equilibrium.

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Quantifying Uncertainty in Blending Severe Thunderstorm Model Results with Experience Loss Data for Ratemaking

White Papers | pdf - 774 Kb
April 26, 2013

AIR previously introduced a ratemaking method that blends historical and modeled severe thunderstorm losses with non-cat losses to produce a composite estimate of total loss cost. This paper presents a framework to quantify the components of uncertainty in this approach.

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Climate Change Impacts on Extreme Weather

White Papers | pdf - 3796 Kb
June 24, 2017

This white paper examines how climate change affects the severity of extreme weather phenomena, and describes its implications for catastrophe modeling and the insurance industry.

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Climatological Influences on Hurricane Activity: The AIR Warm SST Conditioned Catalog

White Papers | pdf - 1410 Kb
September 04, 2008

At the midpoint of an already active 2008 hurricane season, AIR issued a white paper to provide an update on its original research on climatological influences on hurricane landfall risk. The white paper explains in detail AIR’s approach to creating a climate-conditioned view of U.S. hurricane risk and outlines a robust approach to catastrophe risk assessment using multiple views of the risk.

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Issue Brief: Weathering Hurricane Variability in a Warm Atlantic

White Papers | pdf - 775 Kb
May 07, 2018

After the catalytic 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons in the United States, the insurance industry wondered if a “new normal” was establishing itself in the Atlantic basin.

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Modeling Supply Chain Disruptions and Contingent Business Interruption Losses

White Papers | pdf - 492 Kb
July 15, 2016

This issue brief discusses several challenges associated with modeling contingent business interruption in supply chains, and introduces AIR's novel modeling framework.

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Quantifying the Impact from Climate Change on U.S. Hurricane Risk

White Papers | pdf - 5685 Kb
December 07, 2020

This paper focuses on two aspects of climate change impacts on U.S. hurricane risk, specifically related to damage to residential and commercial properties.

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