Session: Communicating Weather and Climate (91st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Monday, 24 January 2011: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

6AB (Washington State Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 11th Presidential Forum: Communicating Weather and Climate; the More Effectively Communicating the Science of Tropical Climate and Tropical Cyclones; the Michio Yanai Symposium; 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 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 20th Symposium on Education; the 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the Ninth History Symposium; the 8th Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; the Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the 5th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the Fourth Annual CCM Forum; the Third Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Second Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration; the Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Second Symposium on Environment and Health; the First Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans and Challenges; the Special Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Special Symposium on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology; and the IMPACTS: Weather 2010 )

Panelists:

Thomas E. Skilling, WGN-TV/Chicago Tribune, Chicago, IL; Claire Martin, CBC News: Weather Centre, Vancouver, BC; Doyle Rice, USA Today, Washington, DC and Martin Storksdieck, National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council, Washington, DC

Moderator:

Robert T. Ryan, NBC4 TV, Washington, MA

Papers:

9:00 AM

Panelist: Thomas E. Skilling

Thomas E. Skilling, WGN-TV, Chicago, IL

9:10 AM

Panelist: Claire Martin

Claire Martin, CBC News: Weather Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada

9:20 AM

Panelist: Doyle Rice

Doyle Rice, USA Today, Washington, DC