Patent ID: 8354933

Claim:
An early warning system for developing and imminent tropical storms, comprising: an automated trigger device including means for generating and transmitting an activating pulse after a trigger parameter is exceeded, and measurement devices distributed in a decentralized manner, the activating pulse sent to the measurement devices to request at least one of geophysical, atmospheric, and maritime measurement parameters by a standardized message, wherein the measurement devices are arranged in at least one of cellular, geographically, and topologically definable units or zones, and the at least one of geophysical, atmospheric, and maritime measurement parameters of the measurement devices are transferred via a network interface to and stored in a trigger module of the trigger device, the measurement devices for measuring the measurement parameters include measurement sensors that are connected to the measurement devices via an air interface or a fixed wired interface or via an interface including contacts, the trigger module includes a Monte Carlo module for dynamic generation of a plurality of data records including at least one of physical and geographical parameters of a tropical storm for definable future time intervals based on the transmitted measurement parameters, and wherein the trigger device includes means for dynamic variation of boundary condition parameters of the data records based on the transmitted measurement parameters, the trigger module includes an extrapolation module for generating and storing track distribution parameters of a track distribution, which are integrated via the plurality of the data records, for each of the definable future time intervals, wherein the track distribution includes each of the at least one of cellular, geographically, and topologically definable units or zones and are extrapolated according to parameterization of the at least one of cellular, geographically, and topologically definable units or zones, and the trigger device includes an activating device, the early warning system being activated by the activating device in response to at least one of the generated track distribution parameters meeting a predetermined criteria and the trigger parameter meeting a predetermined criteria, the trigger parameter including a catastrophe bond index corresponding to a predetermined range of values.