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

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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.