Session 15 (Dis)continuity in Weather Warnings and Message Consistency

Thursday, 16 January 2020: 8:30 AM-9:30 AM
Host: 15th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice
Cochairs:
Susan A. Jasko, California University of Pennsylvania, Communication, Design, and Culture, California, PA and Castle Williams, The University of Georgia, Atmospheric Sciences Program - Department of Georgraphy, Athens, GA

This session seeks abstracts from a wide range of practitioners--NWS operations to private sector professionals, social scientists to organizational communication staff, managers to researchers--whose work examines weather warning messaging practices or raises key questions about what innovation is needed to develop reliable and easily managed communication practices, including those that might be adopted by practitioners across the weather enterprise.

Papers:
8:30 AM
15.1
8:45 AM
15.2
Public Perception and Comprehension of the Extended Forecast Graphic in Television Weather Broadcasts
Jacob Ryan Reed, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; and J. C. Senkbeil

9:00 AM
15.3
Same Warning Message - Different Recipients: Experiences at a Small/Medium Sized Weather Service
Magnus Ovhed, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Tromsø, Norway

9:15 AM
15.4
Addressing Discontinuity in Air Quality Alerts and Messaging
Kristen Benedict, EPA, Durham, NC; and R. A. Wayland and G. Hagler

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