The Insurance Council has partnered with MetService & CLIMSystems to bring you a comprehensive information workshop that will explain the general weather basics, the weather predominantly affecting New Zealand, the changes we will see with the various phases of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the extra volatility we can expect with warming sea temperatures as part of climate change now and going forward. The Workshop will outline some of the modelling tools that weather peril pricing experts may want to consider.

The Programme

09:15    Introduction – John Lucas, ICNZ

09:20   Met 101 – Chris Webster, MetService

• • • A brief Met101 – understanding New Zealand’s weather.
    • The types of weather impacts that can lead to insurance claims
    • The predictability of different weather phenomena, with particular reference to NZ.

10:00     Questions

Five-minute break

 10:15     Seasonal climate outlook – Georgina Griffiths, MetService

• A very brief discussion of the main climate drivers in the NZ region (ENSO, SAM, MJO, TASMAN SEA, blocking High relevance) – which ones should you care about most at different times of year?
• Live seasonal outlook, eg likely to focus on intense El Nino and Southern Ocean indicators
• Live Rain and temp forecasts for NZ for the coming 3 months

Questions (10min) 

10:55    Questions  

Five-minute break

 11:10      Our future climate and weather – Colin Roberts and Peter Urich, CLIMsystems

• • • Overview of climate change projections and modelling for IPCC climate scenarios.
    • Overview of how these projections are used to derive climate change signals and how those signals are applied to baseline (MetService) data to give an insight into future climate changes for the perils of interest.
    • How the uncertainty in climate projections is handled.
    • An overview of some climate change signals and trends for NZ and an overview of the interconnectedness of all the perils (e.g. increases in rainfall associated with increases in temperature and hence higher evapotranspiration leading to an increase in water deficit).

11:50     Questions

12:00    Summary of services and tools for risk professionals – Peter Fisher, MetService 

• • • Hindcast
    • Seasonal
    • Historical data
    • Real time data
    • Spot forecasts
    • Consultancy & briefings
    • Dashboards
    • Climate risk analysis reporting

12:20     Questions 

12:30    Workshop concludes

Cost $225.00 plus GST per person