Suilou Huang

Rejection sampling is a simple but useful Monte Carlo sampling method that has many applications in cat modeling and hazard simulation.

Given advances in science and statistics, we set out to develop an explicitly space-time and environmentally driven representation of tropical cyclogenesis—the origin of a tropical cyclone.

This year's remarkable Atlantic hurricane season ends today! There were 17 named storms, 10 hurricanes, and 6 major storms—more hurricanes and major storms than even NOAA’s revised seasonal forecast anticipated.

The North Atlantic hurricanes Harvey and Irma made landfall along the U.S. coastline within two weeks of each other. We were curious to see how often major hurricanes made consecutive landfalls along the U.S. coast.

In statistics, bootstrapping is any test or metric that relies on random sampling with replacement. It is a computer-intensive resampling technique that involves a relatively simple procedure repeated many times.

Florida has not seen a single hurricane landfall in ten years, and has experienced hurricane landfalls in just five years of the last twenty.

A question has been popping up quite often recently: We have now had a nine-year stretch without a hurricane landfall in Florida. Is this (ab)normal?