Session: Communicating the Value of Satellite Data to the Public (98th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Monday, 8 January 2018: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Salon H (Hilton) (Austin, Texas)

Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 22nd Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 13th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the Sixth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation )

Cochairs:

Kathryn Shontz, NOAA/NESDIS/OSAAP, Silver Spring, MD and Susan A. Jasko, California University of Pennsylvania, Communication, Design, and Culture, California, PA

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Papers:

10:30 AM

J7.1

Communicating Value: A Mutual Exploration, an Ongoing Conversation—Not a Sales Pitch

William Hooke, Associate Executive Director of AMS, Washington, DC

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (177.3 kB)

11:00 AM

J7.2

Communicating the Value of the Satellite Data: Examples from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information

Margarita Gregg, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, Asheville, NC; and K. Arzayus, M. J. Brewer, K. S. Casey, E. Kihn, K. V. Matthews, S. Mesick, J. L. Privette, N. A. Ritchey, M. Tanner, R. S. Vose, and M. Wohlgemuth

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J7.3

Communicating the Impact of Polar-Orbiting Satellite Data on Numerical Weather Prediction to Stakeholders: Some Lessons Learned

James G. Yoe, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and S. A. Boukabara and S. Lord

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J7.4

What Is a Satellite Measurement? Communicating Abstract Satellite Science Concepts to the World

Nadia Smith, Science and Technology Corporation, Columbia, MD; and K. Shontz and C. D. Barnet

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (122.5 kB)

Handout (3.4 MB)