NSSL
Researcher Answers the Question: "When and Where Does Severe
Weather Occur?"
by Rachel Shortt
Posted 10/11/04
... It all began when Brooks attended a meeting with the Federal
Emergency Management Agency about tornadoes in Washington, D.C.,
in 1998. One of the main questions from this meeting was, “How
do we determine the real threat of things that are happening and
how often should we expect certain kinds of events to occur and
where?” This brought about the concept of focusing efforts
on understanding the climatology of severe weather.
The study has become a major solution to the problem of how to
gather together observations of severe weather, where there are
a lot of biases, and take those biases away to produce an estimate
that is more believable, Brooks said.
“Once I had started working on it, I also realized I
could apply it to lots of things ..."
Read the rest of the story...
Complete list of stories in the series. |