Sentences with phrase «weather index for»

Iffco Tokio General Insurance Company is planning to introduce a satellite - based weather index for weather insurance by using grant from the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

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The index has now increased for two consecutive months, following the weather - influenced negative reading in February.

So far, domestic small - to - mid-cap companies that get most of their revenues at home have weathered prospects of higher trade costs the best, with the Russell 2000 index of smaller companies up 2.8 percent for the year, nearly double the 1.5 percent gain in the larger - cap and more internationally - exposed S&P 500 index over the same time.

Even after a drop in commodities this month, seven of eight tracked by the Standard & Poor's GSCI Agriculture Index are higher than a year earlier as adverse weather damages crops, rising demand erodes inventories and a weak dollar boosts demand for U.S. exports.

But using data from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's National Temperature Index (NTI), we found that cold weather during the winter months (December, January and February) does not have a meaningful implication for stock market returns.

Now if you go back ten years, a period that includes the bubble, the Group of Fifteen did better, averaging a positive 8.13 % per year.Even for that ten year period, however, they underperformed the value group, on average, by more than 5 % per year.6 With a good tailwind, those large cap funds were not great — underperforming the index by almost 2 % per year — and in stormy weather their boats leaked badly.

The index is not adjusted for seasonal variations, so the dip partly reflects slower buying as winter weather set in.

In his February 2015 paper entitled «The Search for Crisis Alpha: Weathering the Storm Using Relative Momentum», Nathan Faber tests a dual momentum safe haven based on U.S. Treasuries of different durations as proxied by either constant maturity indexes or exchange - traded funds (ETFs).

The new analysis is based on recent research showing that hot weather's most deadly effects for humans comes from a combination of high temperature and high humidity, an index which is measured by a reading known as wet - bulb temperature.

The report for 2012, based on an index of fatalities and economic damage from weather extremes, noted that Haiti was struck by Hurricane Sandy, the Philippines by typhoon Bopha and Pakistan had suffered severe monsoon floods.

This new paper does employ a tool developed for North American weather - casting: the Accumulated Winter Season Severity Index (AWSSI).

BMW Search was recently enhanced to delivery real - time fuel prices at nearby gas stations, major stock indices from BLOOMBERG, and access to weather forecasts for the next three days.

Today's strategy looks for U.S. stocks that can better weather volatility than the general U.S. market (as measured by the S&P 500 Total Return Index).

Due to health and safety concerns for animals and humans alike, our Rabies Clinic will be canceled on any day that the anticipated heat index is above 100 degrees or if other inclement weather that could jeopardize the safety of pets and humans occurs.

Despite parent company Index Holdings filing for bankruptcy and weathering a serious fraud investigation, Atlus USA has stressed that their day - to - day operations haven't been affected, at least in the short term.

When weather - related damages are adjusted («normalized») to account for changes in population, per capita income, and the consumer price index, there is no long - term trend such as might indicate an increase in the frequency or severity of extreme weather related to global climate change.

Pakistan Today: Despite severe flooding in 2011, Pakistan managed to drop itself from first last year, to third position this year in the league table for countries that were worst hit by extreme weather events in 2011, according to a «climate risk index 2013» published here on Tuesday.

Antarctic ice extent setting new records last year, and close to breaking them this year again Extreme weather as measured by ACE on a decline for decades Drought as measured by Palmer Drought Index flat for decades Sea level increases not accelerating and possibly starting to decelerate Signature tropospheric hot spot completely missing Scientists by the bushel coming up with some of the most absurd excuses as to why....

Lexington, Massachusetts — May 31, 2007 — Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. (AER) a leader in climate and weather forecasting, is pleased to introduce hCast - SR ™, a probabilistic hurricane tracking service for trading the new CME (NYSE, NASDAQ: CME) futures and options on futures contracts based on the Carvill Hurricane Index (CHI ™), in time for the 2007 Hurricane Season.

This new paper does employ a tool developed for North American weather - casting: the Accumulated Winter Season Severity Index (AWSSI).

The index shows how each country will be able to respond to extreme weather like droughts, blizzards, hurricanes, wildfires, and floods connecting to our changing climate — and how long it will take for each to adapt.

A study using a regional climate model and the same indices of significant severe thunderstorms as have been used to diagnose their patterns in the current climate finds that, especially in the central and eastern United States (the preferred locations for severe weather anywhere in the world), we can expect a few more days per month with conditions favorable to severe thunderstorm occurrence in a doubled CO2 climate [12](Fig. 5).

A weather - resolving index for assessing the impact of climate change on tourism related climate resources

Yu, G., Z. Schwartz, J. E. Walsh, and W. L. Chapman, 2009: A weather - resolving index for assessing the impact of climate change on tourism related climate resources.

Severe weather indices only indicate the potential for convection.

When weather and fire authorities issue warnings about the risk of fire in Australia, they use what's known as the McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index - or FFDI for short.

Much longer records are needed; thus we followed Hurst in looking for very long records among the fossil weather data exemplified by varve thickness and tree ring indices.

NOAA's Climate Extremes Index also ranked 2012 as the second-most extreme year for weather.

We blended surface meteorological observations, remotely sensed (TRMM and NDVI) data, physiographic indices, and regression techniques to produce gridded maps of annual mean precipitation and temperature, as well as parameters for site - specific, daily weather generation for any location in Yemen.

To try to understand America's reluctance to tackle climate change, Egan and Megan Mullin, an environmental policy professor at Duke University, created a weather preference index for Americans based on past studies that look at where people move, taking employment and other factors into account.

Here is the formula for the «SEVERE WEATHER THREAT» index, used by forecasters to «parameterize» the likelihood of severe thunderstorms:

Our focus on two Arctic - only indicators and an index for extreme winter weather offers new evidence and clues about the effects of a rapidly warming and melting Arctic on the rest of the globe.

For our study, the AWSSI is advantageous because it integrates both intensity and duration of temperature, snowfall, and snowcover into one index to measure weather severity across seasons and stations.

As the app's moniker suggests, Sickweather is somewhat similar to a weather application for illnesses, and as expected, the application provides a relative threat index of contagious illnesses in the area.