This brochure provides an overview of the AIR Severe Thunderstorm Model for Australia. The model captures the risk from all three sub-perils that contribute to property loss in Australia: hail, tornado, and straight-line wind.

Developing scenarios that accurately reflect real events is a complex and challenging undertaking. This issue brief addresses the principal challenges of modeling inland floods in real time.

This brochure provides an overview of the AIR Bushfire Model for Australia, where fires that once raged across grassland and forest burn today through highly developed commercial and residential areas, causing significant insured losses. The model employs several parameters that drive the generation of realistic fire perimeters—including available fuels, weather, and topography. The phenomenon of clustering—a distinctive feature of Australian bushfires—is explicitly modeled. To capture building and structural characteristics in fine detail, the model employs separate damage functions for 44 construction types, 48 occupancy classes, and several height bands.

This brochure provides an overview of the AIR Tropical Cyclone Model for Australia. The model captures the risk from all three cyclone-related perils that contribute to property loss in Australia: wind, precipitation-induced flood, and storm surge. It also leverage’s AIR’s detailed industry exposure database for Australia, which provides a foundation for all modeled industry loss estimates and can be used to disaggregate exposure data to a highly detailed level for more accurate loss estimates.

This brochure is a preview of the AIR Severe Thunderstorm Model for Australia …

Currently available for China, Thailand, Brazil, and Vietnam, AIR flood hazard maps display the extent of the flooding associated with river flow magnitudes at various return periods. Flood depths are also available for Brazil and Vietnam.

This brochure provides an introduction to the AIR Earthquake Model for China. With rapid urbanization in seismically active regions and a burgeoning insurance market, companies operating in China need sophisticated tools to assess and manage their exposure to earthquake risk.

This brochure provides an introduction to the AIR Tropical Cyclone Model for Mexico, which features a basinwide catalog of simulated events to enable companies to assess risk to portfolios that span Mexico, the Caribbean, the United States and even the Gulf of Mexico (offshore assets). The AIR model incorporates a high-resolution flood module to estimate the severity of precipitation-induced flooding, the probability of which can be exacerbated by Mexico's mountainous terrain. The model explicitly accounts for the complex teleconnections between the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Atlantic wind shear, appropriately reflecting the negative correlation between tropical storm genesis in the two basins.

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

This issue brief helps you utilize the AIR U.S. inland flood model and better understand the results the model produces. It describes best practices for using and evaluating this tool and identifies the critical inputs needed to obtain reliable modeled loss output.