Challenges with Issuing Meteorological Warnings

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Description

Presentation 10 in the Warnings Event Week 2017

Length: 32 min

Author: Nuno Moreira (IPMA)

Content

Nuno Moreira from Portuguese Met Service (IPMA) is going to show us the current warning system used in Portugal. How are their decisions affected by the impacts that weather may have on wide variety of parameters that can then affect people? Social media are playing an important role in communicating weather information to people nowadays. How to, what and when to communicate certain warnings to people? Nuno will try to answer all of these questions from IPMA's point of view.

 

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