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Recipe for Disaster: How the Dynamic Ingredients of Risk and Exposure Are Changing the Tornado Disaster Landscape
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: ornado disasters and their potential are a product of both hazard risk and underlying physical and social vulnerabilities. This investigation appraises exposure, which is an important component and driver of vulnerability, ...
Finescale Assessment of Mobile Home Tornado Vulnerability in the Central and Southeast United States
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractResearch has illustrated that tornado disaster potential and impact severity are controlled by hazard risk and underlying physical and social vulnerabilities. Previous vulnerability studies have suggested that an ...
Driving Blind: Weather-Related Vision Hazards and Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: isibility-related weather hazards have significant impacts on motor vehicle operators because of decreased driver vision, reduced roadway speed, amplified speed variability, and elevated crash risk. This research presents ...
Spatiotemporal Changes in Tornado Hazard Exposure: The Case of the Expanding Bull’s-Eye Effect in Chicago, Illinois
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: xposure has amplified rapidly over the past half century and is one of the primary drivers of increases in disaster frequency and consequences. Previous research on exposure change detection has proven limited since the ...
Assessment of NWS County Warning Area Tornado Risk, Exposure, and Vulnerability
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Projecting End-of-Century Human Exposure from Tornadoes and Severe Hailstorms in Eastern Colorado: Meteorological and Population Perspectives
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Observed and Projected Changes in United States Tornado Exposure
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractThis study examines how tornado risk and societal exposure interact to create tornado disaster potential in the United States. Finescale historical and projected demographic data are used in a set of region-specific ...
The Climatology, Vulnerability, and Public Perceptions Associated with Overlapping Tornado and Flash Flood Warnings in a Portion of the Southeast United States
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
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