Weather, Climate, and Society: Recent submissions
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AMS Policy on Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism
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Data Archiving and Citation within AMS Journals
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ANNOUNCEMENT
(American Meteorological Society, 2012) -
Vermont Climate Change Indicators
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)limate change indicators are developed for Vermont in recent decades based on the trends in freeze dates, the length of the growing season, the frozen period of small lakes, and the onset of spring. These trends, which ... -
An Increase in the Number of Tornado Reports in Brazil
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)his paper presents the development of tornado reports in Brazil since the middle of the twentieth century, both for the country as a whole and for the five regions of Brazil: the south, southeast, central-west, northeast, ... -
A Preliminary Look at the Social Perspective of Warn-on-Forecast: Preferred Tornado Warning Lead Time and the General Public’s Perceptions of Weather Risks
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)ornado warnings are currently issued an average of 13 min in advance of a tornado and are based on a warn-on-detection paradigm. However, computer model improvements may allow for a new warning paradigm, warn-on-forecast, ... -
Beyond the Tipping Point: Understanding Perceptions of Abrupt Climate Change and Their Implications
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)This article explores the influence of personal values and ontological beliefs on people?s perceptions of possible abrupt changes in the Earth?s climate system and on their climate change mitigation preferences. The authors ... -
The Impact of Cloud Cover on Major League Baseball
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)Although it is often suggested that direct sunlight may affect a player?s vision, no published studies have analyzed this interaction. In this research, a variety of statistical tests were utilized to study how baseball ... -
Gulf Coast Residents Underestimate Hurricane Destructive Potential
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)ost people do not realize that hurricane destructiveness increases nonlinearly with increases in storm intensity. Three studies were conducted to examine people?s perceptions of hurricane destructive potential and their ... -
Social Vulnerability to Climate-Sensitive Hazards in the Southern United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)he southern United States is no stranger to hazard and disaster events. Intense hurricanes, drought, flooding, and other climate-sensitive hazards are commonplace and have outnumbered similar events in other areas of the ... -
Exploring Variations in People’s Sources, Uses, and Perceptions of Weather Forecasts
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)ast research has shown that individuals vary in their attitudes and behaviors regarding weather forecast information. To deepen knowledge about these variations, this article explores 1) patterns in people?s sources, uses, ... -
The Case for a Physical Journal
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The Relationship between Tornadic and Nontornadic Convective Wind Fatalities and Warnings
(American Meteorological Society, 2011)A database of tornado fatalities, nontornadic convective wind fatalities, severe thunderstorm warnings, and tornado warnings was compiled for the period 1986?2007 to assess the spatial and temporal distribution of warned ... -
CORRIGENDUM
(American Meteorological Society, 2010) -
The Costs and Losses of Integrating Social Sciences and Meteorology
(American Meteorological Society, 2010) -
Climate, Society, and Caesar’s Wife
(American Meteorological Society, 2010) -
Message from AMS Director of Publications
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What is the Goal? Framing the Climate Change Adaptation Question through a Problem-Oriented Approach
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)A problem-oriented and interdisciplinary approach was employed at Alpine Shire, in northeast Victoria, Australia, to explore its tourism sector?s contextual vulnerability and adaptability to stressors that include but are ... -
An Estimate of Increases in Storm Surge Risk to Property from Sea Level Rise in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Sea level is rising as the World Ocean warms and ice caps and glaciers melt. Published estimates based on data from satellite altimeters, beginning in late 1992, suggest that the global mean sea level has been rising on ... -
Influence of Location, Population, and Climate on Building Damage and Fatalities due to Australian Bushfire: 1925–2009
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)This study reevaluates the history of building damage and loss of life due to bushfire (wildfire) in Australia since 1925 in light of the 2009 Black Saturday fires in Victoria in which 173 people lost their lives and 2298 ...