Joint Session 3 |
| | Continued: Hurricane Mitch: Perspectives on a Natural Disaster (Invited Session) (Joint between the Climate Variability, the Oceans, and Societal Impacts and the Precipitation Extremes: Prediction, Impacts, and Responses) |
| | Organizer: Kerry Emanuel, MIT, Cambridge, MA
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| 3:30 PM | J3.5 | Forecasting Difficulties during Hurricane Mitch
Lixion A. Avila, NOAA/NHC, Miami, FL |
| 4:00 PM | J3.6 | Hurricane Mitch's effect on Honduras
Hector Flores, Director of the Honduran Hydrometeorological Service, Honduras |
|  | J3.7 | The problems of disaster preparedness and relief in Central America
Father Albert Brooks, Priest of Eglisia Santisima Trinidad, La Ceib, Honduras |
| 4:30 PM | J3.7a | Trends in Hurricane Vulnerability in Latin America and the Caribbean
Roger A. Pielke Jr., NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Rubiera |
| 4:59 PM | J3.8 | The reconstruction effort in Honduras
Curt Barrett, Manager of the U.S. DOC Mitch Re-construction effort, Silver Spring, MD |