The Weather Ready Nation Conference: Imperatives for Severe Weather Research; Birmingham, AL; April 23-27, 2012

天气准备国家会议：恶劣天气研究的当务之急；

• 批准号: 1240153
• 负责人: Karyn Sawyer
• 金额: $ 1.8万
• 依托单位: University Corporation For Atmospheric Res
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-05-15 至 2013-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1240153&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Weather; Ready; Nation; Conference; Imperatives

Intellectual merit This conference will further identify, prioritize, and set in motion an actionable and fully integrated physical and social science research plan to enhance our nation's readiness, responsiveness, and resiliency to severe local weather, specifically tornadoes.Broader impacts Expected as results of the workshop are:1) Research areas that include the need to reduce the false alarm rate and to conduct social science research on watch/warning messaging and the impacts of false alarms and lead times on social responses2) Social science research that will result in increased hazard mitigation and emergency preparedness in advance of NWS warnings3) Identifying advancements in longer term outlooks and forecasts and their links to preparedness4) Identifying advancements in short-term forecasts, watches and warnings and their links to responses5) Development / mining of finer-scale datasets centered on severe storm and tornado prediction6) Identifying storm-scale processes controlling tornado genesis, longevity, track and intensity7) Refinement of gap-filling observing technologies and means for their optimal assimilation into high-resolution models8) Enhance resilience with improved description and understanding of near-surface airflow characteristics pivotal to impacts on built structures and human casualties, including engineering analyses derived from post-storm damage surveysUCAR's Joint Office for Science Support (JOSS) will use funding provided by the National Science Foundation for support of the conference to provide full travel support for ~11 attendees.

本次会议将进一步确定、确定优先顺序，并启动一项可操作的、全面整合的物理和社会科学研究计划，以提高我们国家对当地恶劣天气（特别是龙卷风）的准备、响应和恢复能力。预计讲习班的结果将产生更广泛的影响：1)研究领域，包括需要降低假警报率，并就观察/警报信息传递以及假警报和前置时间对社会反应的影响进行社会科学研究；2)社会科学研究将导致在国家气象局发出警报之前增加减灾和应急准备工作；3)确定长期展望和预测方面的进展及其与准备工作的联系4)确定在短期预报、观察和预警及其与响应的联系方面取得进展5)以强风暴和龙卷风预测为中心的更精细尺度数据集的开发/挖掘6)识别控制龙卷风发生、寿命的风暴尺度过程；通过改进对近地面气流特征的描述和理解，增强对建筑结构和人员伤亡影响的恢复能力；sucar的科学支持联合办公室（JOSS）将使用美国国家科学基金会为支持会议提供的资金，为约11名与会者提供全部旅费支持。