Session 2 |
| Societal Dimensions of Weather and Climate Hazards |
| Cochairs: Sheldon D. Drobot, NCAR, Boulder, CO; Sam Ng, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO
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| 1:30 PM | 2.1 | Mapping social vulnerability to heat wave in Chicago Chona E. Sister, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and C. G. Boone, J. Golden, D. Hartz, and W. C. Chuang |
| 1:45 PM | 2.2 | Heat-attributable mortality in a changing world: accounting for climate change and adaptation J. Scott Greene, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. Kalkstein, D. M. Mills, and J. Samenow |
| 2:00 PM | 2.3 | Societal Impacts of Weather Hazards: Understanding Public Response to Tornado Events Havidan Rodriguez, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; and J. Santos and W. Diaz |
| 2:15 PM | 2.4 | Impacts on city policy from the early morning tornadoes that hit Omaha, Nebraska on 8 June, 2008 Daniel Nietfeld, NOAA/NWSFO, Valley, NE |
| 2:30 PM | 2.5 | Lessons Learned: Evacuations Management of Hurricane Gustav Mark A. Shafer, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and B. Keim, S. Van Cooten, and G. M. Eosco |
| 2:45 PM | 2.6 | Political Cultural and Economic Vulnerabilities in One Nicaraguan Community Monica K. Zappa, OU-University of Oklahoma, SSWIM-Social Science Woven into Meteorology, Norman, OK |