Session 8D Warning Systems: Methods and Implementation

Tuesday, 30 September 2014: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Conference Room 2 (Embassy Suites Cleveland - Rockside)
Host: 20th International Congress of Biometeorology
Chair:
Jason C. Senkbeil, University of Alabama, Geography, Tuscaloosa, AL

Papers:
3:30 PM
8D.1
'Do Air Hygiene-related Forecasting and Early Warning Systems Reach Vulnerable Target Groups?'
Hans-Guido Muecke, Federal Environment Agency Germany, Berlin, Germany; and M. Capellaro and D. Sturm

3:45 PM
8D.2
Do We Need a Tornado Watch Scale?
Jason C. Senkbeil, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; and J. B. Mason

4:00 PM
8D.3
The development of an extreme cold warning system for livestock in northeastern Montana
Katrina L. Frank, Applied Climatologists, Inc., Flower Mound, TX; and T. Fransen, W. J. Martin, and L. Kalkstein

4:15 PM
8D.4
Human's adaptation to weather changes: Media Project “Biomet_Forecast”
Marina Trubina, Russian State Hydrometeorological University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

4:30 PM
8D.5
Case Study in Heat: Global Cities Address Climate-Health Threats With Early Warning Systems
Kim Knowlton, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, NY; and D. Mavalankar, A. Jaiswal, G. S. Azhar, A. Tiwari, A. Rajiva, B. Deol, N. Kaur, P. J. Webster, V. Toma, P. Sheffield, and J. Hess

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