Taylor, AL orcid.org/0000-0002-8949-1234, Kox, T and Johnston, D (2018) Communicating High Impact Weather: Improving warnings and decision making processes. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 30 (Pt A). pp. 1-4. ISSN 2212-4209
Abstract
Around the world, high impact weather events continue to represent a serious threat to lives and livelihoods. Effective forecast and warning systems can play an important role in reducing the harm caused by these events. However, in order for continuing improvements in the science of weather forecasting to support disaster risk reduction, forecast information must be communicated in a way that is accessible, understandable and provides a useful input into decision making processes. In keeping with this, the papers featured within this special issue focus on: 1) the move towards providing impact based weather warnings to better support decision making processes; 2) trust and its relationship with forecast uncertainty; 3) tailoring forecasts and warnings to meet the decision needs of different user groups; 4) the emerging role of social media in the dissemination and verification of weather warnings; and 5) the wider behavioural, social, cultural and political context in which weather warnings and forecast information are used in decision making. Together they highlight both the challenges of communicating about high impact weather in different contexts, and the potential ways to address them.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. This is an author produced version of an editorial comment published in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Management Division (LUBS) (Leeds) > Management Division Decision Research (LUBS) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 05 Apr 2018 12:16 |
Last Modified: | 04 Apr 2019 00:43 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.04.002 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:129272 |
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