84th AMS Annual Meeting

Joint Session 8: Heat Health Warning Systems: Part II (Joint between the 14th Conference on Applied Climatology and the Symposium on Planning, Nowcasting, and Forecasting in the Urban Zone; Room 619/620)

Wednesday, 14 January 2004: 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Room 619/620
Chair:  Laurence Kalkstein, Univ. of Delaware
Papers:
  1:30 PM
General guidance for urban intervention in response to extreme heat events
Alan D. Perrin, EPA, Washington, DC; and J. P. Samenow and N. J. Dietsch

  1:45 PM
Use of heat/health warning systems by the utility industry
Steve Lee, Entergy Services, Inc., Jackson, MS; and C. Chouest

  2:00 PM
Heat watch/warning wystems save lives: estimated costs and benefits for Philadelphia 1995–1998
Kristie L Ebi, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA; and T. J. Teisberg, L. Kalkstein, L. Robinson, and R. Weiher

  2:15 PM
Changing Heat Wave Mortality in U.S. Cities
Robert E. Davis, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and P. C. Knappenberger, P. J. Michaels, and W. M. Novicoff