Session 8 Leveraging Mesonet Services for Stakeholder Engagement II

Tuesday, 30 January 2024: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Key 10 (Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor)
Host: 28th Conference on Applied Climatology
Cochairs:
Sean Patrick Heuser; Myleigh D. 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:
4:45 PM
8.2
New York State Mesonet Winter Weather Data, Products and Services for NOAA operations
Junhong Wang, SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY; and B. Shrestha, N. Bain, and J. Brotzge

5:00 PM
8.3
Community Engagement Activities with the New Mexico ZiaMet
Dave W. DuBois, PhD, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM

5:30 PM
8.5
Utilizing Real-time Mesonet Data to Alert Decision Makers of Potentially Hazardous Conditions
David A. Robinson, Office of the NJ State Climatologist, Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ; and M. Gerbush, C. Shmukler, J. Read, and D. Fittante

5:45 PM
8.6
Leveraging Mesonets to Develop Diverse Environmental Decision Support Systems
Daniel J. Leathers, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; and K. R. Brinson

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