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Defining Hazards



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  • Journal Title:
    Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Personal Author:
  • NOAA Program & Office:
    OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
  • Description:
    State hazard mitigation plans guide state and local agencies in actions they may take to reduce their vulnerability to extreme events. However, because they are written for a general audience, they must be written in a way for a layperson to understand. In many cases, the people writing these plans are not meteorologists or do not have access to meteorological expertise. Consequently, descriptions of hazards may be taken from websites, other documents, or perhaps authoritative sources. This leads to inconsistencies in the way hazards are portrayed in the plans, which increases the difficulty of translating proposed actions to local governments or to other states.
  • Source:
    Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98(4), 659-663
  • DOI:
  • ISSN:
    0003-0007 ; 1520-0477
  • Format:
    PDF
  • Publisher:
    American Meteorological Society
  • Document Type:
    Journal Article
  • Funding:
    Grant no. NA13OAR4310183
  • Rights Information:
    Other
  • Compliance:
    Library
  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:72fe35b89956e8020f1f64e91c04f7339adb4b8b9f9eb7590090901272824f51f843e4254b24c06f1129b81ef4f6883ef0b6bba32b235100cc82989c1b3aac5f
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