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A Change in the Climate: New Interpretations and Perceptions of Climate Change through Artistic Interventions and Representations
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The uncertainties concerning climate change debated daily in the media polarize political leaders and the general public alike. While daily weather is something that can be experienced by everyone and changes in the weather ... -
A Climate Change Impact Assessment (CCIA) of Key Indicators and Critical Thresholds for Viticulture and Oenology in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada
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A Comparison of Government Communication of Climate Change in Hong Kong and United Kingdom
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A Kaleidoscope of Understanding: Comparing Real with Random Data, Using Binary-Choice Items, to Study Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Knowledge of Climate Change
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he authors used a 59-item survey to probe the understanding of climate change by 89 Ontario preservice teachers. The study investigated the usefulness of comparing real survey data from closed, binary choice items, with ... -
A Look at the Evolution of Meteorological Satellites: Advancing Capabilities and Meeting User Requirements
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)n this paper, the authors offer their observations from more than 30 years of involvement in the evolution of the space-based meteorological remote sensing systems. Successes and issues from the past are recalled that ... -
A Mental Models Study of Hurricane Forecast and Warning Production, Communication, and Decision-Making
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he study reported here explores how to enhance the public value of hurricane forecast and warning information by examining the entire warning process. A mental models research approach is applied to address three risk ... -
A National View of Storm Surge Risk and Inundation
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), specifically the National Weather Service?s (NWS) National Hurricane Center (NHC), utilizes the hydrodynamic Sea, Lake, and Overland Surges from Hurricanes (SLOSH) ... -
A Novel Financial Market for Mitigating Hurricane Risk. Part I: Market Structure and Model Results
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)novel financial market for hedging the effects of landfalling hurricanes is described and illustrated. The structure of the market is one sided and parimutuel, so that participants buy contracts pertaining to hurricane ... -
A Novel Financial Market for Mitigating Hurricane Risk. Part II: Empirical Validation
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)his paper explores the empirical features of a novel commodity option trading instrument described in the companion paper (Part I) that allows market participants to hedge against the risk that a coastal county or region ... -
“A Persistent Truth”—Reflections on Drought Risk Management in Southern Africa
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Severe droughts in southern Africa are associated with livelihood impacts, a strain on local economies, and other hardships. Extensive effort has been spent in the past trying to improve responses to periods of extensive ... -
A Pilot Test of the Association between Weather Comfort and Thermocomfort and Time Spent Outdoors
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A Political Ecology of “Water in Mind”: Attributing Perceptions in the Era of Global Climate Change
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)his article explores how researchers can apply social science methods and theoretical frames to capture how place-based communities are perceiving and responding to the immediate effects of global climate change. The study ... -
A Portrait of Contrasts in Disaster Risk Response: A Post-Haiyan Study of Coron, Philippines
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A Preliminary Look at the Social Perspective of Warn-on-Forecast: Preferred Tornado Warning Lead Time and the General Public’s Perceptions of Weather Risks
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)ornado warnings are currently issued an average of 13 min in advance of a tornado and are based on a warn-on-detection paradigm. However, computer model improvements may allow for a new warning paradigm, warn-on-forecast, ... -
A Review of People’s Behavior in and around Floodwater
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)study was undertaken to review international literature pertaining to people?s behavior in and around floodwater. The review focused on people?s voluntary entry of floodwater. From the literature, five predominant reasons ... -
A Season for Complaints: How Does Weather Affect Noise Complaints between Neighbors?
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A Simulation Approach for Estimating Hurricane Risk over a 5-yr Horizon
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)e develop a stochastic North Atlantic hurricane track model whose climate inputs are Atlantic main development region (MDR) and Indo-Pacific (IP) sea surface temperatures and produce extremely long model simulations for ... -
A Spatial Analysis of Decisions Made in Response to Simulated Tornado Warnings in the United States
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A Spatiotemporal Lightning Risk Assessment Using Lightning Mapping Data
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A Summary of Recent National-Scale Lightning Fatality Studies
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)here is a major difference in population-weighted lightning fatality rates between the lower fatality rates in developed countries and the higher fatality rates in developing countries. The large decrease in annual rates ...