Communication of risk and uncertainty has also arisen as a key topic of several recent multi-disciplinary conferences and symposia. The first “Weather Ready Nation” conversation in Norman, Oklahoma (2011), and the follow-on meeting held in Birmingham, Alabama (2012), specifically identified warning message content and warning context with respect to improved response as a research imperative. Two American Meteorological Society (AMS) Warning and Communications Workshops (2011 and 2013) focused on this topic. A formal Town Hall Meeting at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the AMS was held to discuss a new paradigm for the existing National Weather Service (NWS) weather forecast and warning system: Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental Threats (FACETs). Finally, during May of 2015, a multi-disciplinary workshop with a goal to cultivate an integrated, multidisciplinary community of researchers who can coordinate, cooperate, and collaborate on problems in extreme weather resilience.
This presentation will review ongoing and proposed social science research on communicating hazardous weather risk and uncertainty stemming from these meetings and workshops. In some areas, new research needs have been identified, but research proposals have yet been identified.
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