WxWarning Call for Papers

Call for Papers: Eighth Conference on Weather Warnings and Communication

The Eighth Conference on Weather Warnings and Communication is organized by the Board on Societal Impacts and hosted by the American Meteorological Society. 

Papers for the Eighth Conference on Weather Warnings and Communication are solicited on the following:

  • Communicating resilience and sustainability to reduce disaster impacts;
  • Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Warning & Communication;
  • Fundamentals in Warning & Communication for maximum public uptake, such as consistency in our labels, lessons learned relating to mediums used, and the inclusion of core features to align with empirically-proven best practices;
  • Impacts-focused communication during extreme heat, flooding, hurricane, or surge;
  • Other topics on Weather Warnings and Communication;
  •  Probabilistic Messaging and the presentation and communication of risk, uncertainty, and confidence;
  • The Future Path for Alerting and Communications;
  • Warning and communication in complex severe weather environments, such as high-impact, overlapping, and prolonged threats 

 

Conference Contacts

For additional information, please contact the program chairs: Zachary Riel ([email protected]), Stephanie Hoekstra ([email protected]), and Denise Macomber-Lenz ([email protected]).