Session 2 |
| | Economics and Weather: Methods and Applications |
| | Organizers: William Hooke, AMS Policy Program, Washington, DC; Genene Fisher, AMS Policy Program, Washington, DC; Roger Pulwarty, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO
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| 8:30 AM | 2.1 | The Sensitivity of United States Economic Sectors to Weather Variability
Jeffrey K. Lazo, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. H. L. Larsen |
| 8:45 AM | 2.2 | Willingness to Purchase Insurance for Low Probability, Low Loss Natural Hazard Risk 
John C. Whitehead, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC |
| 9:00 AM | 2.3 | The overlap in scientist's and reinsurer's interests in assessing, modeling, and monitoring the impacts of extreme climate events 
Richard J. Murnane, Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Garrett Park, MD; and H. F. Diaz |
| 9:15 AM | 2.4 | The Miami Hurricane Event Market (MAHEM): A Hurricane Futures Market
David Letson, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and D. S. Nolan, D. Kelly, and F. Nelson |
| 9:30 AM | 2.5 | The Economic Value of Hurricane Forecasts: An Overview and Research Needs
David Letson, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and J. K. Lazo and D. Sutter |
| 9:45 AM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 11:00 AM | 2.6 | Severe Weather and Bank Performance
B.T. Ewing, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and S. E. Hein and J. B. Kruse |
| 11:15 AM | 2.7 | U.S. Flood Damage: future expectations based upon historical trends
Erik Noble, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Boulder, CO |
| 11:30 AM | 2.8 | The Benefits and Cost of NEXRAD Weather Radar
Daniel Sutter, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. M. Simmons |
| 11:45 AM | 2.9 | Replicating Innovation: Successes and Challenges
Dale A. Morris, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and M. A. Shafer and D. S. Arndt |
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