Session: International Applications: Making Environmental Hazard Science Useful, Usable, and Used (98th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Monday, 8 January 2018: 2:00 PM-4:15 PM

Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs:

Ian Lisk, Met Office, Environmental Hazards, Exeter and Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF, Forecast Department, Reading

Ensuring that environmental hazard impact information is based on the best science and is available and of value to those that need it is fundamentally important if societies are to be able to plan, prepare, respond, and recover from such disasters. This session welcomes presentations on how scientifically based environmental hazard information can be made useful, usable, and used.

Papers:

2:00 PM

3A.1

Strengthening Disaster Risk Reduction across the Americas

David S. Green, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC; and J. J. Murray and T. M. Stough

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

3A.2

Hazard Impact Framework: Developing Multi-Hazard Impact Models

Rebecca Hemingway, Met Office, Exeter, UK; and J. Mooney, O. Gunawan, T. Aldridge, and I. Lisk

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM