Severe Convective Storms are Reshaping Insurance and Modeling with Dr. Victor Gensini

13/08/2025 45 min Episodio 10
Severe Convective Storms are Reshaping Insurance and Modeling with Dr. Victor Gensini

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We talk with Dr. Victor Gensini, a professor at Northern Illinois University and one of the leading experts on severe convective storms. Dr. Gensini works with the Insurance Information Institute and has just launched a new center for convective storm research, bringing together academic research and industry needs to tackle this modeling challenge.We'll explore why these storms are so much harder to model than hurricanes, what new data sources are filling the gaps in our understanding, and why we're still five to ten years away from having reliable catastrophe models for severe convective storms. 

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