Joint Session 51 Challenges in Communication and Decision Support throughout the Research-to-Operations Nexus

Wednesday, 15 January 2020: 3:00 PM-4:00 PM
257AB (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/26th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 10th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; and the Special Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice )
Chair:
Gregory J. Stumpf, CIRA/Colorado State University and NOAA/NWS/Meteorological Development Laboratory, Norman, OK

This will be a joint session between the 8th Symposium on Building a Weather-ready Nation (8WRN), 10th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations (10R2O), and 30th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (30WAF).  We welcome abstracts from emergency managers, social scientists, operational forecasters, researchers with R2O products, and others at the R2O nexus, to discuss the challenges they face in communication and decision support.

Papers:
3:00 PM
J51.1
A Summary of the Research Operations Nexus (RON) Meetups at NWA and AMS
Gregory J. Stumpf, CIRA/Colorado State University and NOAA/NWS/Meteorological Development Laboratory, Norman, OK
3:30 PM
J51.3
Communicating Rip Current Risk with a Virtual Reality Video Game
Jase Bernhardt, Hofstra Univ., Hempstead, NY; and G. Dusek and A. Hesse
3:45 PM
J51.4
Updates to the Winter Storm Severity Index for 2019/20
Joshua Kastman, NOAA/NWS, College Park, MD; CIRES, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Nelson Jr.
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