Session: Risk Communication of Weather and Climate Information (Themed Joint Session) (91st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Wednesday, 26 January 2011: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

611 (Washington State Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; the 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); the 25th Conference on Hydrology; the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; and the Second Symposium on Environment and Health )

Cochairs:

Nate Johnson, NBC Owned Television Stations Group, N/a and John Sokich, NOAA/NWS, Office of Strategic Planning and Policy, Silver Spring, MD

Papers:

8:30 AM

J3.1

The Communication of Risk: At the Crossroads of Science, Economics, and Communications

Paul Hettler, California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA; and S. A. Jasko and C. M. Kauffman

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

J3.2

Communicating weather, climate and catastrophe risk and preparedness

Jeanne Salvatore, Insurance Information Institute, New York, NY