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When Weather Matters: Science and Service to Meet Critical Societal Needs (NRC, 2010) identified social science research and sustained collaboration between social and physical scientists as being as important as advances in physical science understanding and technical advances in numerical weather prediction for improving operational weather forecasts and weather disaster response.
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b As discussed later, there is a growing body of SBS research related to longer-term meteorological and climatological changes, which offers many critical insights for those studying issues related to near-term weather preparedness and response. that include social and behavioral science expertise in routine assessment of weather disasters.
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weather industry, and academic partners, research necessary to enhance the integration of social science knowledge into weather forecast and warning processes, including to improve the communication of threat information necessary to enable 13
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Given the solid foundation existing in both the physical science and SBS domains, this is an opportune time for exciting interdisciplinary work that investigates critical weather and society issues from multiple angles. Disciplines such as meteorology, hydrology, and numerous social and behavioral sciences, each individually and jointly, hold great promise to continue advancing the weather enterprise.
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3. Develop a research agenda aimed at advancing the application of social and behavioral sciences for improving the nation's weather readiness while providing opportunities to advance fundamental social science knowledge.
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The Committee hopes this study will provide valuable guidance for an array of govern mental and nongovernmental stakeholders across the weather enterprise, and for numerous SBS research communities that are seeking to direct their attention more systematically toward research and applications in meteorology. 1.3 STRUCTURE OF THIS REPORT The structure of the rest of this report is as follows: • Chapter 2 discusses how SBS research helps address the mission of saving lives and other important challenges facing the weather enterprise today, especially in the context of rapidly changing forecast and communication technologies.
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• Chapter 6 discusses the overall framework for more effectively support ing and applying SBS research across the weather enterprise, discussing the complementary roles and possible steps forward that can be pursued by NOAA and other partner agencies, private-sector weather companies, and the academic community. • Chapter 7 summarizes the Committee's key findings and recommendations.
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