relation: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/717/
title: Modelling hurricane track memory
creator: Manus, Lorcan Mac
creator: Barons, Martine
creator: Belica, Matej
creator: Chleboun, Colm
creator: Dellar, P.
creator: Gin, Stephen
creator: Gould, Martin D
creator: Graf, Isabell
creator: Klepek, Karolina Aleksandra
creator: Konrad, Bernhard
creator: Kwiecinska, Agnieszka Alina
creator: Lai, Yi-Ming
creator: Luo, Jamie
creator: Ockendon, John
creator: Sobczak, Grzegorz
creator: Sorensen, Troels Bjerre
creator: Szerling, Pawel
creator: Virmani, Jyotika
subject: Finance
description: It has been observed that hurricanes that are close in time often follow similar paths. If this can be shown to be statistically significant, it could have implications for how insurance premiums are calculated in areas of the US prone to hurricanes.  We developed two independent path distance metrics and while one suggested that sequential storms within a given hurricane season are more likely to follow each other than any other pair of storms within that season, this conclusion was not supported by the other metric.  Some considerations of how local and large scale air pressure gradients might affect hurricane paths were considered. A point vortex model in the presence of a steering flow field was developed and used to simulate the path of two time displaced vortices. In order for the vortices to follow each other they had to be relatively weak compared to the steering flow field. At realistic vortex strength, the trajectories became chaotic.  In summary, our metrics provided conflicting evidence towards the no- tion of hurricane track memory. A large-scale steering flow field did not appear to provide sufficient explanation for hurricanes following each other, though this does not preclude hurricane track memory being due to localised physical changes following a large storm.
date: 2010
type: Study Group Report
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/717/1/ESGI73-Lloyds_CaseStudy.pdf
identifier:   Manus, Lorcan Mac and Barons, Martine and Belica, Matej and Chleboun, Colm and Dellar, P. and Gin, Stephen and Gould, Martin D and Graf, Isabell and Klepek, Karolina Aleksandra and Konrad, Bernhard and Kwiecinska, Agnieszka Alina and Lai, Yi-Ming and Luo, Jamie and Ockendon, John and Sobczak, Grzegorz and Sorensen, Troels Bjerre and Szerling, Pawel and Virmani, Jyotika  (2010) Modelling hurricane track memory.  [Study Group Report]