Session 7 Leveraging Mesonet Services for Stakeholder Engagement I

Tuesday, 30 January 2024: 1:45 PM-3:00 PM
Key 10 (Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor)
Host: 28th Conference on Applied Climatology
Cochairs:
Sean Patrick Heuser; Myleigh Neill, State Climate Office of North Carolina; Rebecca A. Bolinger and Kevin R. Brinson, State Climate Office of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC

Mesonets provide invaluable services to a wide range of state, regional, and federal organizations. These services include real-time weather observations, historical trend analyses, data interpretations, and value-added products. Value-added products leverage and summarize mesonet data in engaging and accessible formats, including decision-support tools, newsletters, and social media posts, to name a few. This session aims to highlight how mesonets leverage their data-driven services to communicate weather and climate information while also engaging with and supporting the needs of regional stakeholders. We encourage submissions discussing: “end-to-end” processes for creating products, the purpose and need for creating these products, various avenues taken to communicate with and engage stakeholders, and best practices/lessons learned for effective communication and engagement. Additional topics of interest may include the generation of weather event products for targeted audiences (such as real time tracking of a total solar eclipse or total precipitation from tropical systems), educational outreach, and how these weather event products connect larger groups with their mesonet.

Papers:
1:45 PM
7.1
Effectively Communicating Heat Stress Using Wet Bulb Globe Temperature and the North Carolina Environment and Climate Observing Network
Sean Patrick Heuser, North Carolina State Climate Office, Raleigh, NC; and M. Neill, W. A. LaForce IV, K. Dello, and S. Saia

2:00 PM
7.2
Development, Operation, and Modification of UUNET for Local Stakeholder Needs
Alexander A. Jacques, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. D. Horel, C. Johnson, and D. L. Mendoza

2:15 PM
7.3
2:30 PM
7.4
Documenting Colorado's Significant Weather Events with CoAgMET
Rebecca A. Bolinger, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. S. Schumacher

2:45 PM
7.5
The Hawaiʻi Messonet: A 100-Station Real-Time Weather and Climate Monitoring Network across Hawaiʻi's Steep Gradients
Thomas Giambelluca, Univ. of Hawai`i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI; and A. D. Nugent, Y. Tsang, D. Beilman, A. G. Frazier, H. Tseng, C. K. Shuler, C. Yap, and D. Giardina

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