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The Performance of the National Weather Service Heat Warning System against Ground Observations and Satellite Imagery
Joint Authors
Vargo, Jason
Xiao, Qingyang
Liu, Yang
Source
Issue
Vol. 2015, Issue 2015 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-15, 15 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2015-06-29
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
15
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Deadly heat waves are increasing with climate change.
Public forecasts and warnings are a primary public health strategy for dealing with such extreme weather events; however, temperatures can vary widely within the administrative units used to issue warnings, particularly across urban landscapes.
The emergence of more frequent and widely distributed sources of urban temperature data provide the opportunity to investigate the specificity of the current National Weather Service (NWS) warnings and to improve their accuracy and precision.
In this work, temperatures from distributed public weather stations, NWS heat advisories and warnings, and land surface temperature imagery throughout two large metropolitan areas, Atlanta and Chicago, during the 2006–2012 summers are considered.
We investigate the spatial variability of hazardous temperatures and their agreement against NWS advisories.
Second, we examine the potential for thermal imagery to replicate National Weather Service heat warnings.
Observations from weather stations exhibit varying degrees of agreement with NWS advisories.
The level of agreement varied by station and was not found to be associated with the station’s proximate land cover.
Air temperatures estimated from satellite imagery correspond with NWS Advisory status regionally and may enable creating more refined public warnings regarding hazardous temperatures and protective actions
American Psychological Association (APA)
Vargo, Jason& Xiao, Qingyang& Liu, Yang. 2015. The Performance of the National Weather Service Heat Warning System against Ground Observations and Satellite Imagery. Advances in Meteorology،Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1052790
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Vargo, Jason…[et al.]. The Performance of the National Weather Service Heat Warning System against Ground Observations and Satellite Imagery. Advances in Meteorology No. 2015 (2015), pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1052790
American Medical Association (AMA)
Vargo, Jason& Xiao, Qingyang& Liu, Yang. The Performance of the National Weather Service Heat Warning System against Ground Observations and Satellite Imagery. Advances in Meteorology. 2015. Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1052790
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1052790