Session: Natural hazard mitigation strategies (80th AMS Annual Meeting)

Monday, 10 January 2000: 8:30 AM-3:30 PM

Host: Second Symposium on Environmental Applications

Organizer:

William H. Hooke, NOAA/OAR, Silver Spring, MD

Papers:

8:30 AM

1.1

Mitigation of Natural Disasters: WMO's Contributions to Societal Needs in the New Millennium

Godwin O. P. Obasi, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

9:00 AM

1.2

Collaborations Between Meteorologists and Emergency Managers: Hurricanes

Jerry D. Jarrell, NOAA/NHC/TPC, Miami, FL

9:15 AM

1.3

Collaborations Between Meteorologists and Emergency Managers: Hurricanes

Lacy Suiter, FEMA, Washington, DC

9:30 AM

1.4

Collaborations Between Meteorologists and Emergency Managers: The Oklahoma Tornado of 3 May 1999. Part 1: The Historical Foundation

Kenneth C. Crawford, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. A. Morris

9:45 AM

1.5

Collaborations Between Meteorologists and Emergency Managers: The Oklahoma Tornado of 3 May 1999. Part 2: Rural Applications of Modern Weather Information During a Disaster

Dale A. Morris, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Honigsberg, J. Lewis, and B. Springfield

10:00 AM

1.6

Collaborations Between Meteorologists and Emergency Managers: Seasonal/Interannual

Ants Leetmaa, NOAA, Washington, DC

10:15 AM

1.7

Collaborations Between Meteorologists and Emergency Managers: Seasonal/Interannual

Richard Andrews, EQE International, Oakland, CA

10:30 AM

1.8

Panel Discussion: Trends in Hazard Mitigation. Robert Ryan, WRC-TV (Changing Private Sector Roles), Brent Woodworth, IBM Corp. (Business Recovery Systems), and Nancy Maynard, NASA (Links to Climate Change)

11:30 AM

1.9

OK-FIRST: An Innovative Information-Support System for Public-Safety Agencies

Dale A. Morris, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. C. Crawford, H. L. Johnson, R. A. McPherson, M. A. Shafer, and J. M. Wolfinbarger

11:45 AM

1.10

Applying Environmental Data to Aid Decision Making During Hazardous Weather Events

Kevin A. Kloesel, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. C. Crawford, R. A. McPherson, D. A. Morris, R. Jesuroga, and C. Subramaniam

12:00 PM

1.11

An independent evaluation of the OK-FIRST decision-support system

Thomas E. James, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. O. Long and M. A. Shafer

12:15 PM

1.12

Midwestern Ice Storms: Frequency, Amounts, and Associated Weather

James R. Angel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and R. Fisher

12:30 PM

1.13

Distance criteria for safe operations when lightning is present

Tamara L. Parsons, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson AFB, OH; and G. R. Huffines and C. C. Cox