Weather, Climate, and Society: Recent submissions
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Evolving Climate Services into Knowledge–Action Systems
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractThe current landscape of climate services represents a highly diverse and still growing range of programs, projects, and portals involved in developing and/or providing climate services at different administrative ... -
The Influence of Objective and Perceived Adaptive Capacity on Midwestern Farmers’ Use of Cover Crops
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractCover crops are grown between periods of regular crop production or planted into crops with the primary purpose of protecting and improving soil health. These crops possess several resilience-enhancing properties ... -
Monitoring of Drought Awareness from Google Trends: A Case Study of the 2011–17 California Drought
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractThis study introduces ?Google Trends? as a social data source in monitoring and modeling the dynamics of drought awareness during the 2011?17 California drought. In this study, drought awareness is defined and ... -
Cry Wolf Effect? Evaluating the Impact of False Alarms on Public Responses to Tornado Alerts in the Southeastern United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractOn average, 75% of tornado warnings in the United States are false alarms. Although forecasters have been concerned that false alarms may generate a complacent public, only a few research studies have examined how ... -
Historical Analysis of U.S. Tornado Fatalities (1808–2017): Population, Science, and Technology
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractThe record of tornado fatalities in the United States for over two centuries (1808?2017) and decadal census records have been examined to search for historical trends. Particular attention has been given to the ... -
How Mobile Home Residents Understand and Respond to Tornado Warnings
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)AbstractMobile home residents experience higher fatality rates from tornadoes than ?fixed home? residents. Yet, research on how mobile home residents understand and respond to tornado warnings is lacking. Such research can ... -
Framing Climate Uncertainty: Frame Choices Reveal and Influence Climate Change Beliefs
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)The public debate around climate change is increasingly polarized. At the same time, the scientific consensus about the causes and consequences of climate change is strong. This inconsistency poses challenges for mitigation ... -
Economic Effects of Climate Change in Alaska
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)We summarize the potential nature and scope of economic effects of climate change in Alaska that have already occurred and are likely to become manifest over the next 30?50 years. We classified potential effects discussed ... -
Of Climate and Weather: Examining Canadian Farm and Livestock Organization Discourses from 2010 to 2015
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)Producer organizations representing Canada?s farm and livestock sectors are powerful change agents and advocates for their industries, particularly during challenging times such as climate- or weather-related hardships. ... -
Exploiting the Convergence of Evidence in Satellite Data for Advanced Weather Index Insurance Design
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)The goal of drought-related weather index insurance (WII) is to protect smallholder farmers against the risk of weather shocks and to increase their agricultural productivity. Estimates of precipitation and vegetation ... -
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Near-Miss Violent Tornadoes in the United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)In the hazards literature, a near-miss is defined as an event that had a nontrivial probability of causing loss of life or property but did not due to chance. Frequent near-misses can desensitize the public to tornado risk ... -
What Are the Impacts of Tropical Cyclones on Employment? An Analysis Based on Meta-Regression
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)To investigate the general principle of the impact of tropical cyclones on employment, explore the reason for the divergence among existing research conclusions, and put forward some suggestions for post-disaster reconstruction, ... -
Understanding Key-Informant Experiences and Perceptions of the 2016 Drought and Wildfires in Western North Carolina
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)In 2016, an exceptional drought and subsequent wildfires devastated the southeastern United States. Western North Carolina (WNC), a socioeconomically growing region that is dependent on revenue from tourism and agriculture, ... -
Utilizing the Dynamic Role of Objects to Enhance Cross-Cultural Climate Change Collaborations
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)Engagements between climate scientists and communities feature challenges but are also essential for successfully preparing for climate change. This is particularly true for indigenous peoples who are proactively responding ... -
Local TV News Viewer Reactions to Weathercasters Reporting the Local Impacts of Climate Change
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)Most Americans misperceive climate change as distant risk; TV weathercasters can help correct this misperception by reporting on the current local impacts of climate change. Some weathercasters, however, are concerned that ... -
Enhancing Drought Monitoring and Early Warning for the United Kingdom through Stakeholder Coinquiries
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)Drought is widely written about as a complex, multifaceted phenomenon, with complexity arising not just from biophysical drivers, but also human understanding and experiences of drought and its impacts. This has led to a ... -
Evacuee Perception of Geophysical Hazards for Hurricane Irma
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)Hurricane Irma was one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history before landfall and caused a large evacuation. A total of 155 evacuees at interstate rest areas were asked to rank their concern about damage at their ... -
Verification of Seasonal Climate Forecast toward Hydroclimatic Information Needs of Rice Farmers in Northern Ghana
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa face many difficulties when making farming decisions due to unexpected changes in weather and climate. Access to hydroclimatic information can potentially assist farmers to adapt. This study ... -
Mapping Discourses of Climate Change Adaptation in the United Kingdom
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)The concept of adaptation is becoming part of mainstream public discourse on climate change. Yet the diversity, complexity, and novelty of the adaptation concept itself leads to interpretive flexibility, differing public ... -
Meteorologists’ Interpretations of Storm-Scale Ensemble-Based Forecast Guidance
(American Meteorological Society, 2019)During the 2017 Spring Forecasting Experiment in NOAA?s Hazardous Weather Testbed, 62 meteorologists completed a survey designed to test their understanding of forecast uncertainty. Survey questions were based on probabilistic ...