Ice Storm Risk Workshop; West Lafayette, Indiana; October 11-12, 2021

冰暴对基础设施、交通、森林和经济构成重大风险，每年造成数十亿美元的损失。 导致冰暴的基本天气模式是众所周知的，但是关于冰暴在气候模型中的表现以及冰暴风险在未来气候中如何变化存在问题。 该奖项将在普渡大学举办一个小型研讨会，该研讨会将汇集来自多个行业的气象专家和风险专家，以确定大气科学领域在未来几年应解决的高优先级研究问题。 该研讨会具有直接的社会意义，因为它的长期目标是改善预报和减少冰风暴风险。该奖项是为为期两天的冰风暴风险研讨会，以探讨科学问题和冰雨事件的风险缓解。 会议将于2021年10月11日至12日在普渡大学校园举行。 该研讨会的中心目标是制定一个跨学科路线图，说明冰风暴科学和风险方面的关键研究差距，具体重点是：1）确定气候变化下减少冰风暴风险的解决方案;和2）确定为实现这些解决方案而必须填补的潜在科学知识空白。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过评估予以支持使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

Ice storms pose significant risks to infrastructure, transportation, forests, and the economy, with annual losses in the billions of dollars. The basic weather patterns that result in ice storms are well-understood, however there are questions about how well ice storms are represented in climate models and how ice storm risk may change in a future climate. This award is for a small workshop to be held at Purdue University that will bring together meteorological experts with risk experts from a number of industries to define the high priority research questions that the atmospheric science field should be addressing in the upcoming years. The workshop has direct societal relevance due to the long-term goal of improving forecasting and reducing ice storm risks.This award is for a two-day Ice Storm Risk Workshop to explore scientific questions and risk mitigation for freezing rain events. The meeting will take place on campus at Purdue University on October 11-12, 2021. The central objective of the workshop is to generate an interdisciplinary road map of critical research gaps in ice storm science and risk, with specific focus to: 1) define solutions for reducing ice storm risks under climate change; and 2) identify the underlying scientific knowledge gaps that must be filled to realize those solutions.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.