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What Is the True Value of Forecasts?
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Understanding the economic value of weather and climate forecasts is of tremendous practical importance. Traditional models that have attempted to gauge forecast value have focused on a best-case scenario, in which forecast ... -
Hydrologic Interdependencies and Human Cooperation: The Process of Adapting to Droughts
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The Bear River Basin, which includes portions of Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming in the United States, has a dynamic history of human hydrologic adaptations in relation to a highly variable water supply. These adaptations are ... -
Weather-Index Drought Insurance in Burkina-Faso: Assessment of Its Potential Interest to Farmers
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)By using a detailed agricultural and climate dataset over Burkina-Faso and simple assumptions regarding the form of an insurance contract, the authors investigate the potential economic efficiency for farmers of a weather-index ... -
False Alarms, Tornado Warnings, and Tornado Casualties
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)This paper extends prior research on the societal value of tornado warnings to the impact of false alarms. Intuition and theory suggest that false alarms will reduce the response to warnings, yet little evidence of a ?false ... -
Making Science Useful to Decision Makers: Climate Forecasts, Water Management, and Knowledge Networks
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Moving from climate science to adaptive action is an immense challenge, especially in highly institutionalized sectors such as water resources. Knowledge networks are valuable strategies to put climate information to use. ... -
The Coming of Age: A New AMS Journal on Weather, Climate, and Society
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New Times, New Challenges, and a New AMS Journal
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Improving Policy for Stormwater Management: Implications for Climate Change Adaptation
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Lack of local information on climate change impacts is increasingly recognized as an important barrier to progress in adaptation. However, simply providing decision makers with higher-resolution climate information will ... -
The Time Cost of Tornado Warnings and the Savings with Storm-Based Warnings
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The authors examine the cost of time spent under tornado warnings issued annually by the National Weather Service (NWS). County-based tornado warnings imposed substantial costs on the nation: an average of 234 million ... -
The Science and Humanity of Weather, Climate, and Society
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The Case for a Physical Journal
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What is the Goal? Framing the Climate Change Adaptation Question through a Problem-Oriented Approach
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)A problem-oriented and interdisciplinary approach was employed at Alpine Shire, in northeast Victoria, Australia, to explore its tourism sector?s contextual vulnerability and adaptability to stressors that include but are ... -
Choosing Carbon Mitigation Strategies Using Ethical Deliberation
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions change earth?s climate by altering the planet?s radiative balance. An important first step in mitigation of climate change is to reduce annual increases in these emissions. However, ... -
Observed and Projected Future Shifts of Climatic Zones in Europe and Their Use to Visualize Climate Change Information
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)A Web site questionnaire survey in Finland suggested that maps illustrating projected shifts of Köppen climatic zones are an effective visualization tool for disseminating climate change information. The climate classification ... -
Time Horizons and Climate Change
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CORRIGENDUM
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The Costs and Losses of Integrating Social Sciences and Meteorology
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Climate, Society, and Caesar’s Wife
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An Estimate of Increases in Storm Surge Risk to Property from Sea Level Rise in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Sea level is rising as the World Ocean warms and ice caps and glaciers melt. Published estimates based on data from satellite altimeters, beginning in late 1992, suggest that the global mean sea level has been rising on ... -
Influence of Location, Population, and Climate on Building Damage and Fatalities due to Australian Bushfire: 1925–2009
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)This study reevaluates the history of building damage and loss of life due to bushfire (wildfire) in Australia since 1925 in light of the 2009 Black Saturday fires in Victoria in which 173 people lost their lives and 2298 ...