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Emergency Management Decision Making during Severe Weather
Journal article   Open access   Peer reviewed

Emergency Management Decision Making during Severe Weather

Leigh A Baumgart, Ellen J Bass, Brenda Philips and Kevin Kloesel
Weather and forecasting, v 23(6), pp 1268-1279
01 Dec 2008
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https://doi.org/10.1175/2008WAF2007092.1View
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Abstract

Abstract Emergency managers make time-sensitive decisions in order to protect the public from threats including severe weather. Simulation and questionnaires were used to capture the decision-making process of emergency managers during severe weather events. These data were combined with insights from emergency manager instructors, National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters, and experienced emergency managers to develop a descriptive decision-making model of weather information usage, weather assessments, and decisions made during severe weather. This decision-making model can be used to develop better decision support tools, improve training, and to understand how innovative weather information could potentially affect emergency managers’ role of protecting the public.

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