Extreme rainfall events and the clustering of extreme values provide fundamental information which can be used for the risk assessment of extreme floods. Event probability can be estimated using the extreme value index (γ) which describes the behavior of the upper tail and measures the degree...

"Social, economic, and technological megatrends are giving Japan its best chance at economic recovery in a generation. Just as entrepreneurship created Japan's post-war economic miracle, it will take a new generation of entrepreneurs to propel revival. At present, Japan suffers one of the lowest...

This paper focuses on the US Billion-dollar Weather/Climate Disaster report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center. The current methodology for the production of this loss dataset is described, highlighting its strengths and limitations including...