Weather, Climate, and Society: Recent submissions
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Nonmeteorological Influences on Severe Thunderstorm Warning Issuance: A Geographically Weighted Regression-Based Analysis of County Warning Area Boundaries, Land Cover, and Demographic Variables
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractStudies have shown that the spatial distribution of severe thunderstorm warnings demonstrates variation beyond what can be attributed to weather and climate alone. Investigating spatial patterns of these variations ... -
Climate Change, Desertification, and Societal Responses along the Mu Us Desert Margin during the Ming Dynasty
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)AbstractHistorical records for the Mu Us Desert margin during the Ming dynasty (1368?1644) and corresponding high-resolution climate proxy records have prompted studies on societal responses to climatic changes in this ... -
Role of Rain as Perception Aid in Assessing Wind Speeds and Associated Personal Risks
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)AbstractExtreme event perception drives personal risks and, consequently, dictates household decision-making before, during, and after extreme events. Given this, increasing the extreme event perception accuracy of the ... -
Journals Embargo Period Reduced to One Year
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Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation in Indian Country
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)uch of the academic literature and policy discussions about sustainable development and climate change adaptation focus on poor and developing nations, yet many tribal communities inside the United States include marginalized ... -
To Act or Not To Act? Factors Influencing the General Public’s Decision about Whether to Take Protective Action against Severe Weather
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)esearch suggests that providing weather forecast end users with additional information about the forecast uncertainty of a possible event can enhance the preparation of mitigation measures. But not all users have the same ... -
Weather, Climate, and Society Eliminates Author Charges
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Seasons of Stress: Understanding the Dynamic Nature of People’s Ability to Respond to Change and Surprise
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)limate change is impacting coastal communities in rural Alaska in multiple direct and indirect ways. Here, findings are reported from ethnographic research done with municipal workers, community leaders, and other local ... -
Atmosfear: Communicating the Effects of Climate Change on Extreme Weather
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he potential and serious effects of anthropogenic climate change are often communicated through the soundbite that anthropogenic climate change will produce more extreme weather. This soundbite has become popular with ... -
Developing Evaluation Indicators to Improve the Process of Coproducing Usable Climate Science
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)esource managers and decision-makers are increasingly tasked with integrating climate change science into their decisions about resource management and policy development. This often requires climate scientists, resource ... -
Visualizing Volcanic Ash Forecasts: Scientist and Stakeholder Decisions Using Different Graphical Representations and Conflicting Forecasts
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)uring volcanic eruptions, Volcanic Ash Advisory Centres issue ash advisories for aviation showing the forecasted outermost extent of the ash cloud. During the 2010 Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull eruption, the Met Office ... -
Meteorological Monographs and Special Collections
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Heat-Related Failures on Southeast England’s Railway Network: Insights and Implications for Heat Risk Management
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)igh temperatures and heat waves can cause numerous problems for railway infrastructure, such as track buckling, sagging of overhead lines, and the failure of electrical equipment. Without adaptation, these problems are set ... -
Spot Weather Forecasts: Improving Utilization, Communication, and Perceptions of Accuracy in Sophisticated User Groups
(American Meteorological Society, 2017)pot weather forecasts (SWFs) are issued by Weather Service offices throughout the United States and are primarily for use by wildfire and prescribed fire practitioners for monitoring local-scale weather conditions. This ... -
The Stability of Passenger Vehicles at Tornado Wind Intensities of the (Enhanced) Fujita Scale
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)wo independent datasets (total n = 959) of tornado-stricken passenger vehicles collected from 12 tornado events over a 15-yr time span are combined and tested to determine whether vehicle movement and/or upset are consistent ... -
Differences between Conservatives and Liberals in Information-Seeking Behavior and Perceived Risks Associated with Climate-Driven Changes to Local Forest Conditions
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)deological value sets have the potential to shape individuals? preferences as well as their psychological and behavioral responses to new information. Being socially constructed, ideologies are likely to be formed and ... -
Reducing Social Vulnerability to Environmental Change: Building Trust through Social Collaboration on Environmental Monitoring
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he occurrence of natural and socially driven catastrophic events has increased in the last few decades in response to global environmental changes. One of the most societally relevant challenges in managing the effects of ... -
New Tools for Comparing Beliefs about the Timing of Recurrent Events with Climate Time Series Datasets
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)or climate services to be relevant and informative for users, scientific data definitions need to match users? perceptions or beliefs. This study proposes and tests novel yet simple methods to compare beliefs of timing of ... -
Communicating Increased Risk: An Empirical Investigation of the National Weather Service’s Impact-Based Warnings
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)n 2014, following a Central Region pilot assessment, the National Weather Service implemented large-scale use of an experimental product of enhanced severe weather warnings known as impact-based warnings (IBWs). The ... -
Rain Gauges to Range Conditions: Collaborative Development of a Drought Information System to Support Local Decision-Making
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)rought monitoring and drought planning are complex endeavors. Measures of precipitation or streamflow provide little context for understanding how social and environmental systems impacted by drought are responding. Here ...