Nate Johnson
All,
The American Meteorological Society, through its Board on Societal Impacts and Committee on Severe Local Storms, is hosting a conference focused the many kinds of weather warnings that are out there, how they are communicated, and how people respond to them. Presentations and posters relating to any weather warnings — including for short-fuse and convective events, tropical systems, winter weather, and other impactful phenomena — and their creation, communication, perception, reception, etc. are welcome. A number of things recently discussed here on StormTrack, including warn-on-forecast, tornado emergencies, and expanding lead times for convective events, would all be excellent paper or poster topics!
This is a first-of-its-kind conference from the AMS, and we are looking forward to having a broad, interdisciplinary mix of researchers and practitioners at the conference. I am including a full call for abstracts below. The abstract submission form is online and ready for abstracts; I hope you'll consider submitting an abstract or attending the conference! Please be in touch with me, John, or Harold if you have questions.
Cheers,
nsj
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Call for Abstracts
Conference on Weather Warnings and Communication
23-24 June 2011, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The Conference on Weather Warnings and Communication, sponsored by the AMS and organized by the AMS Board on Societal Impacts and the Committee on Severe Local Storms, will be held 23-24 June 2011 at the Renaissance Hotel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. A preliminary program, registration, hotel, and general information will appear on the AMS website (http://www.ametsoc.org) by 1 March 2011.
Advances in weather forecasting and storm detection are improving the warning process and extending warning lead times for all types of hazardous weather. Upgrades to the WSR-88D radar network, improvements in storm analysis techniques, and a shift toward storm-scale modeling and forecasting all hold promise for improving warning accuracy and stretching lead times even further. Meanwhile, our society is becoming increasingly mobile and connected. People have more options for receiving warnings and are getting those warnings with more advance notice than ever before. This leads to new questions, including the dissemination of warnings to our connected society and people's reactions to those warnings. How can the weather enterprise capitalize on the precision of storm-based warnings? What are the best ways to get the warning out and encourage response? How will people react given extended lead times?
Oral and poster presentations are solicited on all topics related to the severe storm warning process, including communication and utilization of those warnings:
• New developments: Improvements in warning technology and techniques, including the shift toward Warn-On-Forecast
• Getting the warning out: On broadcast, via new and social media, and using GPS-enabled technology
• Risk and warning communication: How to get the warning out to maximize understanding and action
• The warning partnership: The evolving roles of the National Weather Service, broadcast meteorologists, and the emergency management community
• How people respond: Studies of how people receive, internalize, and react to warnings
• Service Assessments: What have we learned about the warning process by looking at past performance and public response?
Please submit your abstract electronically via the Web by 24 January 2011 (refer to the AMS Web page at http://www.ametsoc.org for instructions.) An abstract fee of $95 (payable by credit card or purchase order) is charged at the time of submission (refundable only if the abstract is not accepted). This abstract fee will also include the costs for submission of an extended electronic manuscript (details below) and digital recording of all oral presentations.
Authors of accepted presentations will be notified via e-mail by early March. These authors are strongly encouraged to submit an extended manuscript electronically by 17 June 2011. Instructions for formatting extended abstracts (PDF format, up to 3 MB in size) will be posted on the AMS web site. All abstracts, extended abstracts and presentations will be available on the AMS web site at no cost.
For additional information please contact one of the program chairmen:
• Nate Johnson, WRAL-TV and NC State University/Department of Communication; Raleigh, North Carolina ([email protected])
• John Ferree, NOAA/National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center; Norman, Oklahoma ([email protected])
• Harold Brooks, NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory; Norman, Oklahoma ([email protected])
The American Meteorological Society, through its Board on Societal Impacts and Committee on Severe Local Storms, is hosting a conference focused the many kinds of weather warnings that are out there, how they are communicated, and how people respond to them. Presentations and posters relating to any weather warnings — including for short-fuse and convective events, tropical systems, winter weather, and other impactful phenomena — and their creation, communication, perception, reception, etc. are welcome. A number of things recently discussed here on StormTrack, including warn-on-forecast, tornado emergencies, and expanding lead times for convective events, would all be excellent paper or poster topics!
This is a first-of-its-kind conference from the AMS, and we are looking forward to having a broad, interdisciplinary mix of researchers and practitioners at the conference. I am including a full call for abstracts below. The abstract submission form is online and ready for abstracts; I hope you'll consider submitting an abstract or attending the conference! Please be in touch with me, John, or Harold if you have questions.
Cheers,
nsj
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Call for Abstracts
Conference on Weather Warnings and Communication
23-24 June 2011, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
The Conference on Weather Warnings and Communication, sponsored by the AMS and organized by the AMS Board on Societal Impacts and the Committee on Severe Local Storms, will be held 23-24 June 2011 at the Renaissance Hotel in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. A preliminary program, registration, hotel, and general information will appear on the AMS website (http://www.ametsoc.org) by 1 March 2011.
Advances in weather forecasting and storm detection are improving the warning process and extending warning lead times for all types of hazardous weather. Upgrades to the WSR-88D radar network, improvements in storm analysis techniques, and a shift toward storm-scale modeling and forecasting all hold promise for improving warning accuracy and stretching lead times even further. Meanwhile, our society is becoming increasingly mobile and connected. People have more options for receiving warnings and are getting those warnings with more advance notice than ever before. This leads to new questions, including the dissemination of warnings to our connected society and people's reactions to those warnings. How can the weather enterprise capitalize on the precision of storm-based warnings? What are the best ways to get the warning out and encourage response? How will people react given extended lead times?
Oral and poster presentations are solicited on all topics related to the severe storm warning process, including communication and utilization of those warnings:
• New developments: Improvements in warning technology and techniques, including the shift toward Warn-On-Forecast
• Getting the warning out: On broadcast, via new and social media, and using GPS-enabled technology
• Risk and warning communication: How to get the warning out to maximize understanding and action
• The warning partnership: The evolving roles of the National Weather Service, broadcast meteorologists, and the emergency management community
• How people respond: Studies of how people receive, internalize, and react to warnings
• Service Assessments: What have we learned about the warning process by looking at past performance and public response?
Please submit your abstract electronically via the Web by 24 January 2011 (refer to the AMS Web page at http://www.ametsoc.org for instructions.) An abstract fee of $95 (payable by credit card or purchase order) is charged at the time of submission (refundable only if the abstract is not accepted). This abstract fee will also include the costs for submission of an extended electronic manuscript (details below) and digital recording of all oral presentations.
Authors of accepted presentations will be notified via e-mail by early March. These authors are strongly encouraged to submit an extended manuscript electronically by 17 June 2011. Instructions for formatting extended abstracts (PDF format, up to 3 MB in size) will be posted on the AMS web site. All abstracts, extended abstracts and presentations will be available on the AMS web site at no cost.
For additional information please contact one of the program chairmen:
• Nate Johnson, WRAL-TV and NC State University/Department of Communication; Raleigh, North Carolina ([email protected])
• John Ferree, NOAA/National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center; Norman, Oklahoma ([email protected])
• Harold Brooks, NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory; Norman, Oklahoma ([email protected])
