94th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

February 02 - 06, 2014

This session will have a summary of the major global weather impacts that occurred in 2013, as well as some significant floods that had widespread impacts.

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This session will include topics on Major Weather Impacts of 2013 in the US. It will end with presentations on the Oklahoma tornadoes in May 2013. That will lead into the final session of the day, a panel discussion on the Tornadoes of 2013 from 330 pm to 530 pm.

This panel of experts, many with personal connections to the events of May 2013 will discuss topics posed to them by the Moderators in regards to: 1.) User-Driven impact based forecasts/warnings 2.) Integration of social and natural sciences into services 3.) Service delivery across the weather enterprise 4.) Community planning and impacts mitigation. The audience will also be able to ask questions and engage in the discussion as well.

On December 7, 2012, President Obama issued an Executive Order forming the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, directed to coordinate recovery efforts across the federal government as well as with state, local, and tribal governments. The Task Force developed the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Strategy to address current and future vulnerabilities and provide long-term risk management strategies. Scientists from several federal science agencies and departments - including the NOAA, NASA, USGS, DHS – contributed to the Task Force with a focus on science and technology (S&T) through the Task Force Science Coordination Group. In addition, the White House National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction (SDR) also mobilized a post-Sandy effort to determine lessons learned from Superstorm Sandy and identify new opportunities where the federal government's S&T resources could be utilized for future disaster events. The SDR produced a series of recommendations for the Science Coordination Group, with a particular focus on geospatial and remote sensing data for natural hazards. The panel includes invited speakers from the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, the Task Force Science Coordination Group, and the White House NSTC SDR. The panelists will discuss the recommendations for better utilizing federal S&T resources as well as the strategies developed to reduce current and future vulnerabilities to natural hazards.