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Five meteorology talks in 4 countries in 2.5 weeks. Dr. Cohen’s “great capitals of the world” tour.

With society's increasing reliance on the electrical grid, space weather events such as severe solar storms can wreak havoc on the electric power supply and trigger losses from business interruption and damaged physical assets. My recent conversation with Verisk Review covers the impact of space weather events, the financial consequences to insurers, and steps insurers can take to manage and evaluate their exposure. We discussed:

The American Meteorological Society recognized Dr. Ross Hoffman with an Editor’s Award for Weather, Climate and Society at the 2012 AMS Meeting. He received this award for his careful, wide-ranging and thoughtful reviews of difficult manuscripts. To read Dr. Hoffman’s full bio click here.

AER is proud to recognize its 3rd research paper that’s achieved top most downloaded article this year published in a peer-reviewed journal. Asymmetric seasonal temperature trends published in Geophysical Research Letters is the 2nd article published by Dr. Judah Cohen and Dr. Jason Furtado et al., that has been in the top downloaded articles this year.

Space weather events from the Sun are increasing in frequency as we head towards the solar maximum in 2013. Things won't slow down until 2-4 years past maximum, so expect these types of events to be frequent over the next several years. Satellite owners, operators, and insurers will be most affected, but other industries such as the airlines, high-precision GPS users, and the electric utilities...

Atmospheric and Environmental Research’s, Dr. Arindam Samanta, hit the most popular/downloaded article on the Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, for his research article “Seasonal changes in leaf area of Amazon forests from leaf flushing and abscission.” Dr. Samanta was the lead author for this article in collaboration with Boston University, University of Texas, NASA AMES Research Center, NASA JPL/California Institute of Technology and Federal University of Viçosa.

Scientific publisher IOP Publishing just congratulated AER that our research is the 2nd most downloaded article this year from IOP Journal! ‘Arctic warming, increasing snow cover and widespread boreal cooling’ by AER authors Dr. Judah Cohen, Dr. Jason Furtado and others, was published in January 2012, and in just 4 weeks is the second most downloaded paper from IOP Journal with 3,400 downloads plus media stories in 12 countries.

Scientists from AER are contributing 8 presentations and posters at the 2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting, February 20-24, 2012, in Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Research topic areas addressed by our presentations throughout the 5-day event cover:

Telvent GIT, S.A., announced today that it has formed a strategic alliance with Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) to provide the industry’s most advanced solar forecasts to generators and distributors of solar power. Telvent’s highly accurate solar irradiance forecasts — powered by AER™ Solance™ technology — incorporate cloud cover forecasts based on real-time satellite imagery, providing utilities with critical insights into fluctuations in supply.

Scientists from AER are contributing 11 presentations and posters at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, January 23-26, 2012, in New Orleans, LA, USA. Research topic areas addressed by our presentations throughout the 5-day event cover: