Session: Research to Action: Use of Weather and Climate Information for Health Early Warning Systems (99th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Monday, 7 January 2019: 2:00 PM-4:00 PM

North 228AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Environment and Health; and the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )

Cochairs:

Hannah Nissan, IRI, Columbia University, New York, NY and Hunter Jones, NOAA, Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD

Weather and climate act as important drivers of public health outcomes and pose both a risk to disease control strategies and an opportunity to anticipate and reduce negative impacts. We solicit talks on the use of weather and climate information in health early-warning systems from weather to seasonal time scales, including lessons learned and challenges in the translation of research to operations.

Papers:

2:00 PM

J2.1

Decision Aid for Airborne Hazards Stems from Urban Atmospheric Research

Gail Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and S. Roller

2:15 PM

J2.2

Development of Ahmedabad’s Air Information and Response (AIR) Plan to Protect Public Health

Vijay Limaye, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, NY; and K. Knowlton, S. Sarkar, P. Ganguly, S. Pingle, P. Dutta, S. LM, A. Tiwari, B. Solanki, C. Shah, G. Raval, K. Kakkad, G. Beig, N. Parkhi, A. Jaiswal, and D. Mavalankar

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

J2.3

Development and Implementation of an Impact-Based Heat Warning and Information Service for Canada: A National and Regional Collaboration

Melissa MacDonald, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Dartmouth, Canada; and N. Hasell

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

J2.4

The Heat Health Warning System in Germany: Implementation of City Issues and Communication Aspects

Andreas Matzarakis, DWD, Freiburg, Germany; and S. Muthers

3:00 PM

J2.5