Session 1 |
| | Hazards and disasters: Socioeconomic Impacts & the Decision making process: Part 1 |
| | Chair: Greg Forbes, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA
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| 4:00 PM | 1.1 | Superstorms in the 1990's: Can seasons of superstorms be far behind?
Liam M. Cavanaugh, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. H. Glantz, R. E. Morss, E. Gruntfest, and J. Tribbia |
| 4:15 PM | 1.2 | Tracking and evaluating U.S. billion dollar weather disasters, 1980–2005  
J. Neal Lott, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and T. F. Ross |
| 4:30 PM | 1.3 | The Utility Of Surface Roughness Datasets in the Modeling of United States Hurricane Property Losses
Kimberly Mueller, Risk Management Solutions, Newark, CA; and C. Miller and A. Boissonade |
|  | 1.4 | Decision-Making during Hazards and Disasters: An Introductory Survey of Linkages between the Meteorological and Local Public Safety/Emergency Response Communities
Dale A. Morris, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| 4:45 PM | 1.5 | The Role of Meso-γ-Scale Numerical Weather Prediction and Visualization for Weather-Sensitive Decision Making
Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and A. P. Praino |
| 5:00 PM | 1.6 | Assessing the human experience of weather and climate: A further examination of weather salience
Alan E. Stewart, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA |