Joint Session 3 Working Toward a More Weather, Water and Climate-Ready World—Issues and Opportunities: Part 1 (Joint with The Board on Global Strategies)

Tuesday, 12 January 2016: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; and the Special Sessions on US-International Partnerships )
Cochairs:
Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology (ERT), Inc., Vice President, Science and Engineering Business Unit, Laurel, MD and Melinda Marquis, NOAA, Boulder, CO

Papers:
3:30 PM
J3.1
The Weather Ready Nations Initiative
Sezin A. Tokar, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC

3:45 PM
J3.2
Implementing the Global Framework on Climate Services: Information Systems Across the Weather –Climate Continuum
Roger S. Pulwarty, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and W. Higgins, R. K. Kolli, M. Muth, and M. Timofeyeva
Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM
J3.3
Building Inter-Professional Relationships to Create a Weather Ready Nation - Thoughts of an Emergency Manager Turned NWS Forecaster
David Schlotzhauer, NOAA/NWS, Slidell, LA
Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM
J3.4
Need for Relevant and Actionable Climate Information in Extreme Weather Mitigation Planning: Why the Gap Still Persists
Hana Putnam, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and N. Selover, N. Chhetri, K. Galluppi, and A. Cox
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM
J3.5
A Tale of Two Blizzards: Communicating Risk and Forecast Uncertainty During Two Significant Northeast Storms and the Public Response That Followed
Melissa Di Spigna, National Weather Service New York CWSU, Upton, NY; and J. C. Picca
Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM
J3.6
National Weather Service Impact-Based Decision Support Services in the El Paso/Ciudad Juarez Region of the U.S. – Mexico Border: Challenges and Success Stories
Jesus A. Haro, NOAA/NWS, Santa Teresa, NM
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (29.1 kB)

5:00 PM
J3.7
NWS Climate Services Program: Linking Climate and Weather for Improved Decision Support Services
Fiona Horsfall, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. T. Livezey, M. Hawkins, J. Zdrojewski, and D. DeWitt
Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM
J3.8
Providing Impact-based Decision Support Services through the Applied Climate Information System (ACIS)
Arthur T. DeGaetano, Northeast Regional Climate Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and W. Noon
Recorded Presentation

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