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Welcome to the home page for the Collaborative Program on the Societal Impacts and Economic Benefits of Weather Information (SIP)
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The goal of Societal Impacts Program (SIP) is to focus on and improve societal gains from weather forecasting by infusing social science research, methods, and capabilities into the Weather Enterprise. SIP serves as a focal point for developing and supporting a closer relationship between weather researchers, operational forecasters, relevant end users, and social scientists concerned with the impacts of weather and weather information on society. Program activities include primary research, outreach and education, the Weather and Society*Integrated Studies (WAS*IS) program, and development and support for the weather societal-impacts community. Initiated in 2004, the SIP is funded by NCAR and NOAA’s U.S. Weather Research Program (USWRP).
To read more about SIP's mission and goals, please see the About SIP page.
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Eve Gruntfest, Julie Demuth, Jeff Lazo and Emily Laidlaw organized the seventh Weather and Society*Integrated Studies (WAS*IS) workshop in Boulder from August 6-14, 2009. 27 enthusiastic participants from social science and meteorology backgrounds attended the intensive, week-long workshop. For more information on the 27 participants, click here. To download the WAS*IS highlights video from the 2009 summer workshop, click here. |
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The July 2009 edition of Weather and Society Watch is now available! To subscribe to the newsletter, please click here. |
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New Extreme Weather Sourcebook data - Summer 2009
SIP researchers recently updated flood, tornado, hurricane, and composite data on the Extreme Weather Sourcebook Web site through 2007. |
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An article on the economic valuation and application of hydrometeorological servies, authored by NCAR's Jeff Lazo, Emily Laidlaw and Nathaniel Bushek; Robert Raucher and Carolyn Wagner of Stratus Consulting; Thomas Teisberg of Teisberg Associates; and Rodney Weiher of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was published in the October 2008 edition of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Bulletin. Please click here to read the article. |
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Join the new Societal Impacts Discussion Board and exchange societal impacts research questions and information with societal impacts researchers, policy makers, forecasters and others interested members. The discussion board also provides a great forum for announcing journal and news articles, conferences, jobs, educational opportunities, and other opportunities. Click here to access the dicussion board. |
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Check out the new look of the Societal Aspects of Weather (SOCASP) web site. This site contains a database of valuable links related to the societals aspects of weather and is a service of the Societal Impacts Program (SIP), a collaborative program on the societal impacts and economic benefits of weather information. |
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| WAS*IS aims to better integrate weather and social science to empower practitioners, researchers, and stakeholders, in all sectors of the weather enterprise, to forge new relationships and to use new tools for more effective socio-economic applications and evaluations of weather products. Click here to read more about the WAS*IS workshops. |
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| ESRL-NCAR Seminar Series |
| NOAA's Earth Systems Research Laboratory (ESRL) and NCAR's Societal Impacts Program (SIP) have partnered in a seminar series to be held on the third Monday of each month at NOAA's David Skaggs Research Center in Boulder, Colorado. To view the upcoming seminar calendar, as well as abstracts for upcoming presentations, please click here. To view past presentations, please click here. |
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