Weather, Climate, and Society: Recent submissions
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“A Persistent Truth”—Reflections on Drought Risk Management in Southern Africa
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Severe droughts in southern Africa are associated with livelihood impacts, a strain on local economies, and other hardships. Extensive effort has been spent in the past trying to improve responses to periods of extensive ... -
Post Hoc Evaluation of Hazardous Weather: Snowstorms in the Montréal, Québec, Area in March 2008
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)The post hoc evaluation of meteorological events that have severe consequences for individuals, property, economic activities, and the environment is a powerful analytical tool. The paper provides a factual and evidence-based ... -
Hydrologic Interdependencies and Human Cooperation: The Process of Adapting to Droughts
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The Bear River Basin, which includes portions of Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming in the United States, has a dynamic history of human hydrologic adaptations in relation to a highly variable water supply. These adaptations are ... -
Weather-Index Drought Insurance in Burkina-Faso: Assessment of Its Potential Interest to Farmers
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)By using a detailed agricultural and climate dataset over Burkina-Faso and simple assumptions regarding the form of an insurance contract, the authors investigate the potential economic efficiency for farmers of a weather-index ... -
Making Science Useful to Decision Makers: Climate Forecasts, Water Management, and Knowledge Networks
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Moving from climate science to adaptive action is an immense challenge, especially in highly institutionalized sectors such as water resources. Knowledge networks are valuable strategies to put climate information to use. ... -
The Time Cost of Tornado Warnings and the Savings with Storm-Based Warnings
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)The authors examine the cost of time spent under tornado warnings issued annually by the National Weather Service (NWS). County-based tornado warnings imposed substantial costs on the nation: an average of 234 million ... -
Forecast Skill and Farmers’ Skills: Seasonal Climate Forecasts and Agricultural Risk Management in the Southeastern United States
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)During the last 10 yr, research on seasonal climate forecasts as an agricultural risk management tool has pursued three directions: modeling potential impacts and responses, identifying opportunities and constraints, and ... -
Assessing the Impact of Weather on Traffic Intensity
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)This paper focuses on the effect of weather conditions on daily traffic intensities (the number of cars passing a specific segment of a road). The main objective is to examination whether or not weather conditions uniformly ... -
Changes in Ice Storm Impacts over Time: 1886–2000
(American Meteorological Society, 2010)Ice storms have a variety of negative effects on society. Through an analysis of newspaper accounts of nine exceptional ice storms, the most widespread and longest lasting impact is the loss of electrical power. Power ... -
What Is the True Value of Forecasts?
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)Understanding the economic value of weather and climate forecasts is of tremendous practical importance. Traditional models that have attempted to gauge forecast value have focused on a best-case scenario, in which forecast ... -
False Alarms, Tornado Warnings, and Tornado Casualties
(American Meteorological Society, 2009)This paper extends prior research on the societal value of tornado warnings to the impact of false alarms. Intuition and theory suggest that false alarms will reduce the response to warnings, yet little evidence of a ?false ...