Session 4 Digital and Operational Climate Information to Support Resilient Infrastructure Planning and Design

Monday, 13 January 2025: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
353 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise
Submitters:
Anna M. Wilson; Francisco Munoz-Arriola, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Biological systems Engineering, Lincoln, NE; Jason P. Giovannettone and Mahdad Talebpour, PhD
Cochairs:
Anna M. Wilson; Francisco Munoz-Arriola, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Lincoln, NE; Jason P. Giovannettone and Mahdad Talebpour, PhD

The growing understanding of present and future climate impacts, including extreme events, demands ever-expanding climate data and information for real-world design, operation, and decision-making throughout critical infrastructure's lifespan. Many robust partnerships have been developed between researchers, engineers, planners, resource managers, corporations, decision makers, and communities to respond to these multi-dimensional digital and operational demands. In this session, we would like to highlight presentations on assessing and meeting digital and operational climate information and socio-economic needs to support equitable, inclusive, and data-driven engineering planning, design, operations, and decision making for a wide variety of applications. We aim to showcase co-developed solutions (e.g., revised manuals of practice, updated engineering standards, necessary data resources and workflows, and new analyses, analytics, and syntheses for the design and construction of methods and management practices) that empower effective engineering and scientific enterprises for all members of our society. We welcome abstracts that accelerate equitable and inclusive designs and practices for historically underserved and socioeconomically vulnerable communities.

Papers:
4:30 PM
4.1
The NCEI Climate Data Record for Atmospheric Rivers: Initial Results over the Western United States
Emily A. Slinskey, Center For Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E) Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; and J. J. Rutz, B. Guan, and F. M. Ralph

4:45 PM
4.2
Research and Policy Programs to Address Canada’s Increasing Flood Risk.
Ayushi Gaur, Public Safety Canada, Edmonton, AB, Canada

5:00 PM
4.3
Heat Monitoring in the New York City Subway System
Abdou Rachid Bah, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY; and H. Norouzi, R. Blake, C. P. Vasquez, T. Ayala, J. S. Moise, and M. Azarderakhsh

5:15 PM
Panel Discussion

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