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

学术价值本次会议将进一步确定、确定优先事项并启动一项可操作的、完全整合的物理和社会科学研究计划，以增强我们国家应对当地恶劣天气的准备、反应能力和弹性，特别是龙卷风。预期作为研讨会成果的广泛影响包括：1)研究领域，包括需要降低错误报警率，开展关于监测/警报信息的社会科学研究，以及错误警报和提前时间对社会反应的影响2)社会科学研究，将导致在NWS警告之前加强减灾和应急准备3)确定较长期展望和预报的进展及其与准备的联系4)确定短期预报、监测和警报的进展及其与应对的联系5)开发/挖掘以严重风暴和龙卷风预报为中心的更精细的尺度数据集6)确定控制龙卷风发生、寿命和时间的风暴尺度过程跟踪和强度7)改进填补空白的观测技术和手段，以便将其最佳同化为高分辨率模式8)通过改进对对已建结构和人员伤亡的影响至关重要的近地表气流特征的描述和理解，包括从风暴后破坏调查得出的工程分析，提高复原力UCAR的科学支持联合办公室(JOSS)将利用国家科学基金会提供的资金支持会议，为约11名与会者提供全面的旅行支持。

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.