Session: Beyond the Specifics: Reflections and Insights on the Bigger Picture (100th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Tuesday, 14 January 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Host: 15th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

Chair:

Donald J. Wuebbles, Univ. of Illinois, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL

While studies of specific cases and different dimensions of a problem are highly important to identifying improvements in the Weather Enterprise, insights into the bigger picture are useful, too. This session moves to a proverbial 30K foot view of different problems, activities, and future directions.

Papers:

8:30 AM

5.1

We Hear User Requirements but are we Listening?

Michael C. Kruk, KBR, Inc., Asheville, NC; and R. R. Heim Jr. and R. S. Vose

8:45 AM

5.2

Calls to Action in Retrospect: Hurricane Michael Survivors Describe Best Practices and Lessons Learned

Laura Myers, Center for Advanced Public Safety. The Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; and J. Senkbeil, T. johnstone, J. L. Fieux, J. Pullin, W. Dobbs, J. P. Camp, and L. Powell

9:00 AM

5.3

NWS Service Assessments: A Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Review

Michael S. Michaud, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and J. Trainor

9:15 AM

5.4

Understanding Service Assessments as Enterprise learning tools:Reflections from the road well-traveled

Susan A. Jasko, California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA

9:30 AM

5.5

Representing People in Severe Weather Warning Systems

Brenda Philips, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA; and D. Westbrook, J. Trainor, E. Lyons, C. League, and A. Bajaj