Peter Sousounis

Dr. Peter Sousounis is vice president and director of climate change research. His current responsibilities include ensuring that current and future catastrophe model development at Verisk accounts for climate change, identifying products and tools to help clients address their climate change concerns, assisting with global resilience projects, and providing thought leadership in various forms of oral and written communication. He has been responsible for overseeing all global atmospheric model development, including hurricanes, extratropical cyclones, and severe thunderstorms, as well as for building the first numerically based storm surge model and the first ever tsunami model. Peter has authored nearly 100 publications on various topics of weather, climate, climate change, and catastrophe modeling, and holds graduate degrees in Meteorology from MIT and Penn State.

11/29/2021 - 16 min read

Managing U.S. Severe Thunderstorm Risk: Part 1, Reassessing the Hazard with New Data and Technologies

This article discusses newly available data, technological advances, and the importance of capturing all severe thunderstorm outbreaks to successfully manage this risk. In addition, we discuss the impact of climate change on the severe thunderstorm peril

11/15/2021 - 6 min read

How Climate Change May Influence Earthquakes Around the World

Aristotle believed that earthquakes were the result of air escaping violently from subterranean caves.

4/19/2021 - 12 min read

Using AIR’s New Modeling Framework to Understand Climate Change Impacts

New model framework coming from AIR can be used to evaluate climate change risk on short- and long-term time horizons.

9/8/2020 - 15 min read

The Importance of Planetary-Scale Motions for Modeling Local Weather Extremes

This article is the second in a series about a project AIR has undertaken to establish a new framework for modeling and managing climate change risk for the coming decades—one rooted in high quality data and deep domain knowledge of weather and climate physics.