NU Online News Service, July 6, 2:04 p.m. EDT
In the aftermath of last year's record-breaking thunderstorm losses exceeding $26 billion in the U.S., risk modelers are scratching their heads to figure out if the country's storm exposure profile is increasing due to historically inadequate modeling methods or from other factors such as climate change.
"Severe thunderstorms are a little different from other modeled catastrophes such as hurricanes, since the overall losses from [an] event is an aggregate of a number of other small thunderstorm occurrences, referred to as 'micro-events'," said AIR Principal Scientist Tim Doggett in a June webinar about the nation's current and future trends in storm modeling.
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