"There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends. ~Arnot Sheppard
Companies
List from Artemis.bm MarketView
Hedging
Galileo Weather Risk Management
GlobalAgRisk specializes in developing innovative financial instruments for agricultural and weather risk managemen
Mitsui-Sumitomo Insurance Company
- MSI Guaranteed Weather
- Vortex Insurance
- purchased Weather Risk Management system and assets of Aquila Merchant Services
Storm Exchange - inactive
Vyapar Capital Market Partners
- The Beast - electronic trading platform for exchange-cleared over-the-counter (OTC) weather derivatives
- built the world's first real-time 2-year forward weather simulation system. The simulation system powers a real-time pricing and risk management platform, that is certainly at the forefront of a burgeoning and unique asset class - weather. We are trying to grow this potentially $3Trillion+ industry by applying technology to enable simpler, faster, more automated and more efficient transfer of weather risk.
- Use WeatherBill To Bet On The Weather
- Wikipedia article
- WeatherBill predicts bright future in weather insurance
- broker of CelsiusPro products in Australia
XL Weather & Energy - inactive
Refund / Bonus
- in use at Smartwings airline
Nikon Meteo Cashback
- "If it rains on Easter (2 to 5 April 2010) on three days at the selected weather station, you get the FULL PRICE of your Nikon Nikon Camera refunded!"
Walkers Rainy Days promotion
RainCheck of WeahterBill
Weather Refund Promotions from Milltown Insurance Group
Other
Weather Risk Management Services in Australia
Exchanges
CME Group - Weather products
Eurex - Weather Derivatives (Hurricane Futures)
Hurricane Risk Landfall Options
Weather Info
Business Intelligence
Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) (member of Verisk Analytics Family of Companies)
- Climate information for business intelligence
- Weather Competitiveness - How can your business benefit from it?
ForecastWatch forecast accuracy monitoring
MDA EarthSat Weather alternative URL
Speedwell Weather alternative URL1, URL2
Telvent, former DTN Meteorlogix
WeatherData Services, an AccuWeather company
WeatherPredict Consulting, membeer of RenaissanceRe
- Business Weather Network Video
- Business-weather planning and forecasting platform guide
- Commodity Weather blog
- Retail Weather Blog
- Weather Trends International Lands $4.5 Million in Series A Funding
- Ex-Wal-Mart Exec to Lead Technology Integration for Suppliers
WxRisk forecasting
WxWorx weather data
Remote Sensing
Investing
- run a portfolio across all regions and types of derivative, diversifying positions and making money through the optimization of risk
- arbitrage between weather derivatives and commodity derivatives
- use meteorologist to forecast the weather over three to six months in an attempt to identify bargain contracts
- intraday trading
Cumulus - long-short equity fund which seeks to profit from the financial impacts of climate change
Pyrenees - closed
- Pyrenees To Trade Asian Weather Contracts
- Weather fund Pyrenees closes, traders set up weather desk at Sempra
Ramsey Quantitative Systems
Other
Clifford Chance lawyers - environmental and climatic trading group
- Environmental and Climatic Derivatives
- Claude Brown - partner, derivatives and structured products
Low Pressure weather store
Meteo Systems rainfall control
Country Focus
China
China plans weather insurance to help farmers
Exploring Possibilities for Weather Insurance in the Chinese Insurance Market
India
Indian agricultural weather market could reach $7bn in 5 years
Weather risk management: a Rs 10,500 cr business in India
Indian Weather Market Could See Dramatic Growth, Says Weather Risk Management Association
Millea Group launches Weather Insurance in India
Weather futures can help investors tide over climate-related uncertainties
Insurance firm settles claims of weather insurance policy
Cotton farmers in Andhra to get weather insurance
Commodity hedging through weather derivatives: An option for Indian farmers
India - Public-Private-Community Partnership: The Dungarpur Initiative
Companies
Weather Risk Management company
Events
Workshop of National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture
Russia
Google search - weather derivatives, погодные риски, погодные деривативы, погодные производные
Russia proposes insuring farmers
RTS - Производные инструменты на погодуEN
- Погодные фьючерсы. Все на торговлю градусами!
- РТС намерена начать торговлю срочными контрактами на температуру воздуха
Метеоагентство Росгидромета - Страхование погодных рисков
Погодные деривативы – перспективный продукт хеджирования рисков
Что такое погодные деривативы?
Погодные производные и возможности их применения в России
Non-commercial
Directories and Databases
International Organizations
International Finance Corporation
International Fund for Agricultural Development
United Nations World Food Programme
United Nations Development Programme
- What will it take to achieve the Millennium Development Goals section 5.5 "Climate adaptation and low-carbon development", PDF
United Nations Environment Programme
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
- WMO Disaster Risk Reduction Programme
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- High-tech Weather Services in Africa
Professional Associations
WRMA Weather Risk Management Association
- meeting 2010 [3], [4]
- presentations archive
LinkedIn - Weather Derivatives and Weather Risk
National Meteorological Services
Japan - Meteorological Agency
- next-generation high resolution meso-scale atmosphere model, GPU Acceleration of Weather Prediction Model
Switzerland - MeteoSwiss
UK - Metoffice
Ukraine - Hydrometeorological Center
United States - National Weather Service
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Drought Mitigation Center
El Nino
El Nino / Southern Oscillation page US National Weather Service
Events
2 Degrees – Weather, Humans and Their Climate focuses on our many-sided relationships to the weather and climate.
Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop 2008, 2009
Other
UnrealWeather photographing and filming today’s unreal weather
Extreme Weather Heroes of Green Cross Australia