Number 2, February 15 1997"What's happening on the Societal Aspects of Weather WWW Site."
Number 2, February 15 1997
"What's happening on the Societal Aspects of Weather WWW
Site."
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Greetings from Boulder! By now you have probably realized that this WeatherZine is a recurring feature. It is a bimonthly update as to what is happening on the Societal Aspects of Weather WWW Site. The site is maintained by the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group at NCAR and its purpose is to provide a resource to those scholars in the atmospheric, oceanic, and social sciences who have an interest in the relation of society and weather. We hope the site will also be of value to policy and other decision making communities, as well as to the interested public.
As you already know, the site is still very young. In fact, it is still in what we are calling a prototype phase, in which we are experimenting with different approaches and content. This WeatherZine and the VJournal (described below) are two of our innovations. For the site to grow and to be of real value to the research community we need your feedback. Let us know what you would like to see on the site, what is useful, what is not, and please share this resource with your colleagues who might find it useful.
We are learning from the very successful Climate Network Newsletter (edited by Mickey Glantz of ESIG) and the useful Internet resources of the CU Natural Hazards Center. These resources have helped to educate and build a community of scholars in these areas. We'd like to do the same (albeit more modestly) for the community of weather impacts researchers.
Since we are just beginning, your feedback can make a real difference in how we approach the site and also in its success. So drop us an email (thunder@ucar.edu) with your comments and suggestions, submit a reference to the VJournal, but whatever you do, let us know how this site can be of greater use to you!
— Roger A. Pielke, Jr.
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The Weather Impacts VJournal is a virtual journal that presents, on a periodic basis, a listing of scholarly publications (articles, books, reports, conference papers, etc.) relevant to the societal aspects of weather. Because scholars who are interested in society's relation with weather come from many disciplines, their publications appear in hundreds of different journals (if not more!). It is nearly impossible for one person to monitor all of these journals, hoping to catch a relevant paper here and there.
VJournal attempts to overcome this problem by providing an up-to-date listing of scholarly publications. It does not contain full-text of these resources, rather it is a list of citations and pointers (if the are available on the WWW).
The VJournal is a community effort and relies on your contributions if it is to be effective. If you know of good resources, you can submit them by email to thunder@ucar.edu (please include full reference information).
Contributions are collected and verified before they are posted at the VJournal web. Items contain full citations, information on how to obtain the item (if it is not a journal), and occasionally a brief description.
An archive and current listing of the contents of the VJournal are maintained on the web page at all times. However, if you subscribe to the VJournal e-mail distribution list, you can receive periodic e-mails of new citations without having to continuously monitor the web page.
With your help, we hope to simplify the task of becoming aware of first rate scholarship that might not otherwise come to your attention.
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Send an email to majordomo@ucar.edu and in the body of the message include:
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You will then be automatically added to the distribution list and receive the next distribution of the VJournal. You can unsubscribe whenever you wish.
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The Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Achievement was presented to Eugenia Kalnay, director of the National Weather Service's Environmental Modeling Center (EMC). The Center is one of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, and works to improve weather, marine, and climate predictions for the nation.
Kalnay, one of five Department of Commerce recipients of this annual award, was honored for her leadership in improving the computer models which are the foundation of accurate and timely weather forecasts.
* The American Meteorological Society puts out a monthly newsletter with scientific, government, and other news happenings of interest to the community. It is available at:
http://atm.geo.nsf.gov/AMS/newsltr/
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If you have or know of any resources related to winter weather, please let us know with this on-line form or through email to thunder@ucar.edu.
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