Progress toward developing a practical societal response to severe convection (2005 EGU Sergei Soloviev Medal Lecture)

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Doswell
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	A review of severe convection in the context of geophysical hazards is given. Societal responses to geophys- ical hazards depend, in part, on the ability to forecast the events and the degree of certainty with which forecasts can be made. In particular, the spatio-temporal specificity and lead time of those forecasts are critical issues. However, societal responses to geophysical hazards are not only dependent on forecasting. Even perfect forecasts might not be sufficient for a meaningful societal response without the development of considerable infrastructure to allow a society to respond properly and in time to mitigate the hazard. Geophysical haz- ards of extreme magnitude are rare events, a fact that tends to make funding support for appropriate preparations difficult to obtain. Focusing on tornadoes as a prototypical hazard from severe convective storms, the infrastructure for dealing with them in the USA is reviewed. Worldwide implications of the experience with severe convective storms in the USA are dis- cussed, with an emphasis on its relevance to the situation in Europe.
Starting Page	691
Ending Page	702
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.5194/nhess-5-691-2005
Volume Number	5
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00299267/document
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Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-5-691-2005
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article