Session: Advances in Decision-Making Practices (97th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Thursday, 26 January 2017: 8:30 AM-9:30 AM

615 (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events

Cochairs:

Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc., Halethorpe, MD and Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

This session will explore advances in decision-making practices including probabilistic vs. deterministic information, verification, training, and disaster exercises.

Papers:

8:30 AM

7.1

An Examination of the Impact of Probabilistic vs. Deterministic Information on the Decision-Making Practices of Emergency Managers: 2016 HWT Case Study

Cassandra A Shivers, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and S. J. Sanders, T. Adams, D. LaDue, A. Gerard, and L. P. Rothfusz

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

7.2

Verification and Analysis of Probabilistic Hazards Information Guidance

David Harrison, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma/NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and C. Karstens and A. McGovern

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM