Session 5A |
| | RIsk Management |
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Chairperson: Sytske K. Kimball, Univ. of South Alabama, Mobile, AL |
| 8:00 AM | 5A.1 | How NWS Impact Statements Were Used to Communicate Imminent Danger from Severe Hurricanes  
Barry S. Goldsmith, NOAA/NWS, Ruskin, FL |
| 8:15 AM | 5A.2 | Information forecasting for hurricane preparation
Eva Regnier, NPS, Monterey, CA; and P. Harr |
| 8:30 AM | 5A.3 | Hurricane Katrina's wind field: Synthesizing wind observations to construct an analysis of record
Mark Powell, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL |
| 8:45 AM | 5A.4 | Event Response Activities for the Near-Real Time Assessment of Financial Losses in Landfalling Hurricanes
Richard Dixon, Risk Management Solutions, Inc., Newark, CA; and A. Boissonnade, T. Krebs, and A. O'Shay |
| 9:00 AM | 5A.5 | Providing short-fused warnings for the onset of extreme hurricane winds—a final opportunity to minimize casualties
Scott M. Spratt, NOAA/NWSFO, Melbourne, FL; and B. C. Hagemeyer and D. L. Jacobs |
| 9:15 AM | 5A.6 | Stochastic modeling of tropical cyclone track data
Jonas Rumpf, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany; and E. Rauch, V. Schmidt, and H. Weindl |
| 9:30 AM | 5A.7 | Gust factors in hurricane and non-hurricane conditions
Craig Miller, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada |
| 9:45 AM | 5A.8 | Correlation of topographic speed-up factors and building damage ratios for Hurricane Fabian in Bermuda
Kimberly J. Mueller, Risk Management Solutions, Inc., Newark, CA; and C. Miller, K. Beatty, and A. Boissonnade |