Weather, Climate, and Society: Recent submissions
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Tracking Drought Perspectives: A Rural Case Study of Transformations Following an Invisible Hazard
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractRural towns are especially susceptible to the effects of drought because their economies are dependent on natural resources. However, they are also resilient in many ways to natural hazards because they are rich ... -
Effect of Risk and Protective Decision Aids on Flood Preparation in Vulnerable Communities
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractAlthough the risks of flooding demand responses by communities and societies, there are also many cost-effective actions that individuals can take. The authors examine two potential determinants of such adoption: ... -
Does Weather Forecasting Relate to Foraging Productivity? An Empirical Test among Three Hunter-Gatherer Societies
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractPrevious research has studied the association between ethnoclimatological knowledge and decision-making in agriculture and pastoral activities but has paid scant attention to how ethnoclimatological knowledge might ... -
The Relationships among Actual Weather Events, Perceived Unusual Weather, Media Use, and Global Warming Belief Certainty in China
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractPrevious research revealed that if individuals personally experience an unusual weather event as a result of global warming (vs no personal experience), they may hold higher belief certainty that global warming is ... -
The Opportunities and Needs of Water Utility Professionals as Community Climate–Water Leaders
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)Community water is a key place Americans will personally experience climate change. A 2013 nationally representative survey found that 92% of Americans want their community water provider to be a leader in preparing their ... -
Hurricane Strikes and Migration: Evidence from Storms in Central America and the Caribbean
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractThis study estimates the impact of hurricanes on migration from 30 Central American and Caribbean countries to the United States from 1989 to 2005. In contrast to previous studies, hurricane destruction indices are ... -
Structural Property Losses from Tornadoes in Florida
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractProperty losses from tornadoes in Florida are estimated by combining a 1-km spatial grid of structural values from the Department of Revenue?s 2014 cadastral database with historical tornado events since 1950. There ... -
Meteorological Factors Affecting Airport Operations during the Winter Season in the Midwest
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractDuring the coldest months of the year, weather systems bring a variety of winter weather to most of the continental United States in the form of snow, sleet, and freezing rain, which along with strong winds, low ... -
Social Resilience to Climate-Related Disasters in Ancient Societies: A Test of Two Hypotheses
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractCurrent literature on disaster response argues that societies providing greater local participation in decision-making and that have more community coordination and governance organizations are more resilient to ... -
Understanding Climate Change Perception in Community-Based Management Contexts: Perspectives of Two Indigenous Communities
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractMany natural resources around the world are managed by indigenous communities that are closely connected to nature and have nature-based livelihoods. These communities are particularly vulnerable to climate change ... -
Co-producing “Post-normal” Climate Knowledge with Communities in Northeast Bangladesh
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractConcepts of knowledge ?co-production? are increasingly encouraged in climate research, including as an extended mode of climate science inquiry. So-called ?post-normal? science offers opportunities to advance this ... -
Comparing Smallholder Farmers’ Perception of Climate Change with Meteorological Data: Experience from Seven Agroecological Zones of Tanzania
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractThis paper examines and compares smallholder farmers? perceptions of climate change with the collected meteorological data (1980?2015) across the seven agroecological zones (AEZs) of Tanzania. Systematic and simple ... -
Weather, Climate, and Narrative: A Relational Model for Democratizing Risk Communication
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractThere is growing evidence that the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events may be increasing in conjunction with climate change. This means that many communities will encounter phenomena, such as extreme ... -
Surveying Climate Services: What Can We Learn from a Bird’s-Eye View?
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractBilled as the creation and provision of timely, tailored information for decision-making at all levels of society, climate services have garnered a great deal of attention in recent years. Despite this growing ... -
Designing Effective Tsunami Messages: Examining the Role of Short Messages and Fear in Warning Response
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractAlthough tsunamis have the potential to be extremely destructive, relatively little research on tsunami messaging has taken place. Discovering whether tsunami warning messages can be written in a way that leads to ... -
Building a Framework for Process-Oriented Evaluation of Regional Climate Outlook Forums
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractIn many regions around the world, Regional Climate Outlook Forums (RCOFs) provide seasonal climate information and forecasts to decision-makers at regional and national levels. Despite having two decades of experience, ... -
Assimilating Weather Data into a Digital Event Gazetteer of Airborne Parachute Operations during the French Indochina War
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractModern datasets cataloging historical events, known as digital event gazetteers, feature spatiotemporal data regarding events that enable analysis through parameters including location and other descriptive information ... -
Attributes of Weathercasters Who Engage in Climate Change Education Outreach
(American Meteorological Society, 2018)AbstractThis research explores the role of weathercasters as local climate change educators and identifies attributes of those who present climate science to their viewers. In 2015, the authors attempted to survey all ... -
Growing at the Margins: Adaptation to Severe Weather in the Marginal Lands of the British Isles
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractWith the problem of severe weather events having significant impacts on harvests in Britain, this study has looked at how small-scale food producers use agroecology to adapt to adverse weather conditions; 23 sites ... -
Exploring the Impact of Climate Change on the Outbreak of Early Twenty-First-Century Violence in the Middle East and North Africa and the Potential of Permaculture as an Effective Adaptation
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractConsidering the ongoing violence taking place in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, especially within Syria and Iraq, it is essential to provide an accurate explanation of causes in order to develop ...