Weather, Climate, and Society: Recent submissions
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Weather Value at Risk: On the Measurement of Noncatastrophic Weather Risk
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)n evaluation of weather risk entails two important objectives: indicating the economic impact of weather variability and climate change, and evaluating the use of weather derivatives in weather risk reduction and climate ... -
An Examination of Climate Change on Extreme Heat Events and Climate–Mortality Relationships in Large U.S. Cities
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)his study examines the impact of a changing climate on heat-related mortality in 40 large cities in the United States. A synoptic climatological procedure, the spatial synoptic classification, is used to evaluate present ... -
Transcending the Adaptation/Mitigation Climate Change Science Policy Debate: Unmasking Assumptions about Adaptation and Resilience
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he two principal policy approaches to global climate change include mitigation and adaption. In recent years, the interest in adaptation and ?resilience? has increased significantly in part because anthropogenic climate ... -
Extreme Events, Climate Change, and Us: A New IPCC Report for Policymakers
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Applicability of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in Index-Based Crop Insurance Design
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)ndex insurance is becoming increasingly popular because of its ability to provide low-cost, relatively easy to implement agricultural insurance for vegetation types whose productivity has been notoriously difficult to ... -
Weather and Individual Happiness
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)his paper investigates the influence of weather on happiness. While previous studies have examined climatic influence by comparing the well-being of people living in different regions, this paper focuses on how daily changes ... -
Memory and Decision Making: Determining Action when the Sirens Sound
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)emories, both semantic, or learned knowledge, and episodic, or personal experiences, play an important role in an individual?s decision making under risk. In addition, varying levels of knowledge and experience exist in ... -
Shelter Seeking Plans of Tuscaloosa Residents for a Future Tornado Event
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he enhanced Fujita scale category 4 (EF4) Tuscaloosa, Alabama, tornado on 27 April 2011 produced 64 fatalities along its 130-km track. Hybrid survey/interviews were conducted with a sample of 211 Tuscaloosa-area residents ... -
Weather, Climate, and Worldviews: The Sources and Consequences of Public Perceptions of Changes in Local Weather Patterns
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)his paper analyzes the changes Americans perceive to be taking place in their local weather and tests a series of hypotheses about why they hold these perceptions. Using data from annual nationwide surveys of the American ... -
Geographic Specificity, Tornadoes, and Protective Action
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)n 2007, the National Weather Service (NWS) began using storm-based warnings (SBWs) rather than countywide warnings. Some analysts have examined the effects of this change, but little empirical research has yet to focus on ... -
The Impact of Climate on Atmospheric Emissions: Constructing an Index of Heating Degrees for 21 OECD Countries from 1960 to 2005
(American Meteorological Society, 2013)he impact of climate on atmospheric emissions is a highly neglected aspect in research on environmental performance. Cold winters may be a major factor for the increase in heating needs and energy consumption, which may ... -
Waiting for Hurricane Irene in New York
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Delivering Climate Services: Organizational Strategies and Approaches for Producing Useful Climate-Science Information
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)espite numerous and widespread calls for more ?useful? climate-science information to inform policy, most climate science is still produced in a way that is consistent with the ?linear model? of research that favors pure ... -
Gender and Asset Dimensions of Seasonal Water Insecurity in Urban Philippines
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)easonal water insecurity is a social and climate-related problem of growing concern in many urban areas. From 2000 to 2050, the global urban population affected by seasonal water shortage is projected to increase from 312 ... -
Wildfire Management and Forecasting Fire Potential: The Roles of Climate Information and Social Networks in the Southwest United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)ontinuing progress in the fields of meteorology, climatology, and fire ecology has enabled more proactive and risk-tolerant wildland fire management practices in the United States. Recent institutional changes have also ... -
Carbon Dioxide Emission Pathways Avoiding Dangerous Ocean Impacts
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)nthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases could lead to undesirable effects on oceans in coming centuries. Drawing on recommendations published by the German Advisory Council on Global Change, levels of unacceptable global ... -
The Relationship of Weather Salience with the Perceptions and Uses of Weather Information in a Nationwide Sample of the United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)he authors used data from a sample of 1465 adults living in the United States to perform a confirmatory factor analysis on the Weather Salience Questionnaire (WxSQ), a 29-item instrument designed to measure the ways in ... -
Climate Change, Justice, and Adaptation among African American Communities in the Chesapeake Bay Region
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)n this paper, the authors present results from a study of climate change and community adaptation, focusing on two African American communities on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. These two communities are ... -
Sending the Right Bill to the Right People: Climate Change, Environmental Degradation, and Social Vulnerabilities in Central Vietnam
(American Meteorological Society, 2012)n a range of international reports Vietnam is pointed out as among the 5 to 10 most climate-vulnerable countries, which are taking center stage in global climate change assistance and thus attracting huge amounts of foreign ... -
The Data Challenge for Research and Policy on Weather, Climate, and Society
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)