Employing rhetoric to improve probabilistic forecast communication

Description:
This NOAA grant project studies how operational meteorologists and forecasters can best incorporate new probabilistic hazard information (weather information based on the probability that a weather event will occur, rather than discreet numerical values) into the visuals they produce for public and stakeholder audiences.

Timeline:
2021 – 2024

Courses involved:
N/A

Lab leader:
Kat Lambrecht

Collaborators:
Inika Wadwha; Dominic Charles 

Funding/Support:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration SBES grant ($485,382, Role: PI)

Resulting publications:
Heggli, Anne, Benjamin Hatchett, Zach Tolby, Kathryn Lambrecht, Meghan Collins, Lynda Olman, & Matthew Jeglum. “Visual communication of probabilistic information to enhance decision support.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, E1533-E1551, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0220.1