Weather, Climate, and Society: Recent submissions
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A Change in the Climate: New Interpretations and Perceptions of Climate Change through Artistic Interventions and Representations
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The uncertainties concerning climate change debated daily in the media polarize political leaders and the general public alike. While daily weather is something that can be experienced by everyone and changes in the weather ... -
“Old Indian Ways” of Predicting the Weather: Senator Robert S. Kerr and the Winter Predictions of 1950–51 and 1951–52
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)In September 1950, U.S. Senator Robert S. Kerr (D-Oklahoma) wrote to Indian leaders across the United States in order to ?make some determination with regard to whether or not we are going to have an early winter and whether ... -
Decision Making by Austin, Texas, Residents in Hypothetical Tornado Scenarios
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)One of the goals of the Warning Project is to understand how people receive warnings of hazardous weather and subsequently use this information to make decisions. As part of the project, 519 surveys from Austin, Texas, ... -
Choosing Carbon Mitigation Strategies Using Ethical Deliberation
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions change earth?s climate by altering the planet?s radiative balance. An important first step in mitigation of climate change is to reduce annual increases in these emissions. However, ... -
Learning from Climate Variability: Adaptive Governance and the Pacific ENSO Applications Center
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Adaptive governance is a pattern that began to emerge from conflicts over natural resources in the American West a few decades ago. This was a pragmatic response to the emerging evidence that effective control was dispersed ... -
An Analysis of the Relationship between Weather and Aggressive Crime in Cleveland, Ohio
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)This study investigated the relationship between weather and aggressive crime for the period from 1999 through 2004 for the city of Cleveland, Ohio. The majority of the analysis focused on meteorological summer (June?August), ... -
Storm Surge and “Certain Death”: Interviews with Texas Coastal Residents following Hurricane Ike
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Hurricane Ike made landfall near Galveston, Texas, on 13 September 2008 as a large category 2 storm that generated significant storm surge and flooding. This article presents findings from an empirical case study of Texas ... -
The Vulnerability of Mobile Home Residents in Tornado Disasters: The 2008 Super Tuesday Tornado in Macon County, Tennessee
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Mobile home residents are known to be highly vulnerable to tornadoes and account for a considerable portion of tornado-related fatalities. The problem is partially related to the limited protection provided by the structure; ... -
Modeling Irrigated Area to Increase Water, Energy, and Food Security in Semiarid India
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Because of declining public investments in irrigation projects in India, the growth of irrigated agricultural production has increasingly become reliant on unsustainable allocation of groundwater. As a result, groundwater ... -
Early Responses to Climate Change: An Analysis of Seven U.S. State and Local Climate Adaptation Planning Initiatives
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)State and local governments in the United States manage a wide array of natural and human resources that are particularly sensitive to climate variability and change. Recent revelations of the extent of the current and ... -
Observed and Projected Future Shifts of Climatic Zones in Europe and Their Use to Visualize Climate Change Information
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)A Web site questionnaire survey in Finland suggested that maps illustrating projected shifts of Köppen climatic zones are an effective visualization tool for disseminating climate change information. The climate classification ... -
Interpreting the Tropical Atlantic Climate: Diaries from the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Australian Voyage
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)This article analyses representations of the tropical Atlantic and its climate in diaries written during sailing voyages from Britain to the Australian colonies in the middle third of the nineteenth century. It argues that ... -
On the Economic Nature of Crop Production Decisions Using the Oklahoma Mesonet
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Because of the sensitivity of agricultural production to both short-term weather and long-range climatic patterns, the availability of reliable and relevant meteorological data and climate products can potentially affect ... -
Weather, Climate, and Environmental Water Transactions
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Obtaining water for environmental purposes, such as habitat restoration or water quality improvements, has become an important objective in many parts of the world. Such water acquisitions are likely to become more challenging ... -
The Coming of Age: A New AMS Journal on Weather, Climate, and Society
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New Times, New Challenges, and a New AMS Journal
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Improving Policy for Stormwater Management: Implications for Climate Change Adaptation
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Lack of local information on climate change impacts is increasingly recognized as an important barrier to progress in adaptation. However, simply providing decision makers with higher-resolution climate information will ... -
The Science and Humanity of Weather, Climate, and Society
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Time Horizons and Climate Change
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Estimating the Potential Economic Value of Seasonal Forecasts in West Africa: A Long-Term Ex-Ante Assessment in Senegal
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Recent improvements in the capability of statistical or dynamic models to predict climate fluctuations several months in advance may be an opportunity to improve the management of climatic risk in rain-fed agriculture. The ...