NOAA’s Office of Weather and Air Quality will be holding a Social and Behavioral Science (SBS) Research to Operations workshop in Silver Spring, MD from September 4 – 6, 2019. The overall goal of the workshop it to foster lively and interactive discussion toward developing the how-to’s of transitioning different types of SBS finding and help build…
The NOAA HWT Spring Forecasting Experiment is a yearly experiment that investigates the use of convection-allowing model forecasts as guidance for the prediction of hazardous convective weather. A variety of model output is examined and evaluated daily, and experimental forecasts are created and verified to test the applicability of cutting-edge tools in a simulated forecasting environment. The…
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) Policy Program conducted a workshop to explore ideas on increasing the resilience of healthcare facilities and services to high-impact weather events. In this report, which was funded in part by NOAA’s Office of Weather & Air Quality, a strategy was developed for improving resilience that first understands the risks one faces, then resolves the vulnerabilities of health facilities, and finally, prepares for the continuity of health services.