Weather, Climate, and Society: Recent submissions
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Urban Area Response to Flash Flood–Triggering Rainfall, Featuring Human Behavioral Factors: The Case of 22 October 2015 in Attica, Greece
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractOver the past several decades, flash floods that occurred in Attica, Greece, caused serious property and infrastructure damages, disruptions in economic and social activities, and human fatalities. This paper ... -
How to Make Local Context Matter in National Advice: Towards Adaptive Comanagement in Norwegian Climate Adaptation
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractDrawing on case studies in 12 Norwegian municipalities, this paper investigates how local context matters for developing national climate adaptation policies that are applicable at the municipal level. Moreover, ... -
Improving Coastal Storm Evacuation Messages
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)AbstractEvacuation before severe coastal storms is a critical tool for keeping coastal residents safe. Effective messaging of evacuations could help save lives, but there is little evidence-based guidance on the advantages ... -
Climate- and Environment-Induced Intervillage Migration in Southwestern Burkina Faso, West Africa
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractThis study investigated key environmental factors causing intervillage migration by farmers. Therefore, it used household data from surveys, semistructured interviews, life histories, and focus group discussions ... -
Exploring the Usability of Probabilistic Weather Forecasts for Water Resources Decision-Making in the United Kingdom
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractOver the last two decades, probabilistic weather forecasts have been developed to quantify the uncertainties inherent in modeling the climate system. The skill of these forecasts has steadily increased, but the ... -
The Proof is in the Picture: The Influence of Imagery and Experience in Perceptions of Hurricane Messaging
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractAlthough evidence suggests that photographs can enhance persuasive messaging by offering ?proof,? less research considers their utility relative to other visual forms that ostensibly convey more information but ... -
Is Tropical Cyclone Surge, Not Intensity, What Kills So Many People in South Asia?
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)AbstractThis paper statistically examines the hypothesis that the level of storm surge, not storm intensity, is primarily responsible for the large number of tropical cyclone fatalities in South Asia. Because the potential ... -
Investigating the Determinants and Effects of Local Drought Awareness
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractLiterature in environmental public opinion has recently focused on the linkages between biophysical conditions and opinion formation. Where environmental issues and weather are more severe, individuals have been ... -
Observed and Projected Changes in United States Tornado Exposure
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)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 ... -
BLM Sagebrush Managers Give Feedback on Eight Climate Web Applications
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)AbstractSagebrush ecosystems have endured fragmentation and degradation from multiple disturbances. Climate change poses an additional threat that can exacerbate current stresses. Web-based climate applications can provide ... -
What’s in a #Name? An Experimental Study Examining Perceived Credibility and Impact of Winter Storm Names
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractThe practice of naming winter storms has generated a large amount of discussion within the meteorology community of late. While storm naming has typically been reserved for tropical systems, some media organizations ... -
Effects of Rainfall on Vehicle Crashes in Six U.S. States
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)AbstractRainfall is one of many types of weather hazard that can lead to motor vehicle crashes. To better understand the link between rainfall and crash rates, daily gridded precipitation data and automobile crash data are ... -
When Severe Weather Becomes a Tourist Attraction: Understanding the Relationship with Nature in Storm-Chasing Tourism
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractSince the mid-1990s, tourists can purchase storm-chasing tours to observe dangerous, potentially deadly natural phenomena?that companies cannot guarantee will occur. This context calls for a better understanding ... -
Climate Change and Variability in Semiarid Palapye, Eastern Botswana: An Assessment from Smallholder Farmers’ Perspective
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractSmallholder farmers are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and variability in semiarid contexts. Despite the limited adaptation options often used and the largely subsistence agriculture ... -
Climate Events and Impact on Cropping Activities of Small-Scale Farmers in a Part of Southwest Nigeria
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)AbstractThe study examined the variations of selected climatic variables (rainfall and temperature) and the perceptions of small-scale farmers on the effects of extreme climate condition on cropping activities in the rain ... -
Tornado Warning Response and Perceptions among Undergraduates in Nebraska
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)AbstractFew studies show how university students perceive and respond to tornado warnings. Lacking in the literature are investigations of what influences perceptions of tornado risk among this population and how these ... -
Assessing Adaptation Strategies for Extreme Heat: A Public Health Evaluation of Cooling Centers in Maricopa County, Arizona
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)AbstractPreventing heat-associated morbidity and mortality is a public health priority in Maricopa County, Arizona (United States). The objective of this project was to evaluate Maricopa County cooling centers and gain ... -
Experiencing and Responding to Everyday Weather in Darwin, Australia: The Important Role of Tolerance
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)AbstractClimates are changing, yet the everyday implications for societies and cultures are unclear. Until recently, weather and climate (change) have been largely represented quantitatively and discussed at broad spatial ... -
Precipitation Drivers of Cropping Frequency in the Brazilian Cerrado: Evidence and Implications for Decision-Making
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractThe Amazon basin has been subjected to unprecedented rates of land-use change over the past several decades, primarily as a result of the expansion of agriculture. Enhanced rain forest conservation efforts toward ... -
The Conditional Nature of the Local Warming Effect
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)AbstractThe local warming effect occurs when perceived deviations in the day?s temperature affect individuals? global warming beliefs. When people perceive the day to be warmer than usual, they tend to overestimate the ...