NH035
Innovations in Risk Transfer Solutions Using Earth Observations, Weather Data, Physical Models, and Short- to Long-Term Forecasts I

Tuesday, 15 December 2020: 19:00-20:00
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Julio Enrique Herrera-Estrada, Descartes Labs, Inc., Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Colby K Fisher, Princeton Climate Analytics, Princeton, NJ, United States, Elinor Benami, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Michaela Dolk, Swiss Re, Armonk, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Julio Enrique Herrera-Estrada, Descartes Labs, Inc., Los Alamos, NM, United States
Chairs:  Julio Enrique Herrera-Estrada, Descartes Labs, Inc., Los Alamos, NM, United States, Colby K Fisher, Princeton Climate Analytics, Princeton, NJ, United States, Elinor Benami, Stanford University, Davis, CA, United States and Michaela Dolk, Swiss Re, Armonk, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Colby K Fisher, Princeton Climate Analytics, Princeton, NJ, United States
19:00
Introductory Remarks
19:05
NH035-01
Developing a forecasting model of droughts’ impacts on food security for financial decision-making (Invited) (761536)
Oscar Anil Ishizawa, Thibaut Humbert and Paul Blanchard, World Bank, GPURL, Washington, DC, United States
19:10
NH035-02
Operational Agricultural Index Insurance for Kenyan Smallholder Farmers Based on Satellite Derived Soil Moisture (729002)
Tessa Kramer1, Amos Tabalia2, Richard de Jeu1 and Aniruddha Ghosh3, (1)VanderSat, Haarlem, Netherlands, (2)Agriculture and Climate Risk Enterprise Ltd. (ACRE), Nairobi, Kenya, (3)Alliance Bioversity-CIAT, Nairobi, Kenya
19:15
NH035-03
Flood Index Insurance Trigger Development with Radar Satellites and News Media in Northern Bangladesh (766342)
Beth Tellman, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Columbia Water Center, Palisades, NY, United States, Tejit Pabari, Columbia University of New York, Computer Science, New York City, United States, Mitchell Thomas, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States; Columbia University of New York, School of Engineering and Applied Science, New York, NY, United States, Eugene WU, Columbia University of New York, Computer Science, New York, United States, Upmanu Lall, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, Marco Tedesco, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, Michael S Steckler, Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Paolo Colosio, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy, Daniel E Osgood, Columbia University of New York, International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Palisades, NY, United States and Melody Braun, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, United States
19:20
NH035-04
Assessment of Tropical Cyclone Wind-Related Risks to Wellbeing in the Philippines (748079)
Jane Wilson Baldwin, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Suzana J Camargo, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observat., Palisades, NY, United States, Adam H Sobel, Columbia University, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, NY, United States, Chia-Ying Lee, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, Brian James Walsh, World Bank, Washington, United States and Stephane Hallegatte, World Bank, Washington, DC, United States
19:25
NH035-05
Insurance-Linked Securities: Areas of Research and Future Innovation (Invited) (749167)
Joanna Syroka, Fermat Capital Management, LLC, New Markets, Westport, CT, United States
19:30
NH035-06
Designing Index Insurance Contracts to Manage Hydrologically-Driven Financial Risks Using Machine Learning (770978)
Rachel Baum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States; Nephila Climate, Larkspur, CA, United States, Gregory W Characklis, Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Jonathan D Herman, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
19:35
NH035-07
Applying forecast based actions in rapidly urbanizing cities; the case of heatwaves in Hanoi, Vietnam. (747649)
Eddie Wasswa Jjemba1, Andrew Kruczkiewicz2, Trung Nguyen Quang3, Hoa Nguyen4, Jerome Faucet4 and Roop Singh1, (1)Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, The Hague, Netherlands, (2)Columbia University, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change, Hanoi, Vietnam, (4)German Red Cross, Hanoi, Vietnam
19:40
NH035-08
Evaluating and managing drought-related financial risks in California’s North-South Water Transfer System (737746)
Harrison Bray Zeff1, Gregory W Characklis2 and Andrew L Hamilton1, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (2)Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
19:45
Discussion
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