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Interreg IIIB Measure 3: Co-operation in the field of natural risks. METEORISK - An Alpine wide project to enhance collaboration between weather services michael.staudinger@zamg.ac.at. John Kenneth Galbraith: convential wisdom. (The Affluent Society 1958)
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Interreg IIIB Measure 3: Co-operation in the field of natural risks METEORISK - An Alpine wide project to enhance collaboration between weather services michael.staudinger@zamg.ac.at
John Kenneth Galbraith: convential wisdom • (The Affluent Society 1958) • “We associate truth with convenience, with what most closely accords with self-interest and personal well-being or promises best to avoid awkward effort or unwelcome dislocation of life. We also find highly acceptable what contributes most to self-esteem.” • Economic and social behavior, are complex, and to comprehend their character is mentally tiring. Therefore we adhere, as through to a raft, to those ideas which represent our understanding.”
convential wisdom – weather risks? Basis for a risk analysis: which groups are familiar with these risks: Thunderstorms / floodings / storms / heat waves . . . . • tourists • local population • professionals (mountain guides, civil protection)
convential wisdom – weather risks? • risk analysis • which groups are familiar with these risks: • Thunderstorms / floodings / storms / heat waves • tourists • local population • professionals (mountain guides, civil protection) very extreme events often surprise all groups!
What and how should warnings be? • Warnings often fail to reach the people concerned • Reactions to warnings are not appropriate
What and how should warnings be? • Warnings often fail to reach the people concerned • distribution too low due to technical & organisational handicaps • false alarm rate too high • unclear systems (danger levels) • Reactions to warnings are not appropriate
What and how should warnings be? • Warnings often fail to reach the people concerned • unclear systems (services involved, danger levels) • false alarm rate too high • distribution too low due to technical & organisational handicaps • Reactions to warnings are not appropriate • no emotional impact • no clear advice • no „know how“ about the consequences of extreme situations
Is everybody neutral? • False alarm rate & probability of detection (Haechler 2003) POD 1 x x x (future) x x x x x x (now) x x x FAR 1
Is everybody neutral? • False alarm rate & probability of detection POD 1 XXX (media, other services) XXX x x x (future) x x x x x x (now) x x x FAR 1
Why and how should Weather services cooperate? • Fractioned producers / users in Europe and the Alps • unproportional high number of user live in boarder aereas and hear warnings from neighbouring services • Coordinated warnings reduce the FAR and increase the POD • Commonly used warning systems draw more public attention • Communities in certain areas (like the Alps) develop strong common sense about natural dangers (conventional wisdom)
Is language a problem? • Yes! e.g. • 12 words in order of arousal strength (Wolgater and Silver 95) • Note • Notice • Prevent • Alert • Alarm • Harmful • Warning • Urgent • Severe • Poison • Fatal • Deadly
What and how should warnings be? • Suggestions: • danger levels as uniform as possible (Alpine, EU wide)
What and how should warnings be? • Suggestions: • danger levels as uniform as possible (Alpine, EU wide) • danger levels damage orientated (earthquake scales)
What and how should warnings be? • Suggestions: • danger levels as uniform as possible (Alpine, EU wide) • danger levels damage orientated (earthquake scales) • distribution responding to customer preferences and possibilities
What and how should warnings be? • Suggestions: • danger levels as uniform as possible (Alpine, EU wide) • danger levels damage orientated (earthquake scales) • distribution responding to customer preferences and possibilities • parallel to the warnings structured PR work and offers for learning
What and how should warnings be? • Suggestions: • danger levels as uniform as possible (Alpine, EU wide) • danger levels damage orientated (earthquake scales) • distribution responding to customer preferences and possibilities • parallel to the warnings structured PR work and offers for learning • clear interfaces with other services in case of indirect meteorological dangers
What could METEORISK contribute? • Homogenisation of forecasting work (warning levels etc.) • Seminars and real time exchange of forecaster Know How • Densification of observation network • Common interpretation of model output • Improved information of civil protection authorities • Improved information of the public
Forecasting extreme weather Society/ / Behaviour Severe weather phenomena in e.g. 24h Weather service Observations Forecasts Civ. prot. / other services authorities / media recommendations
coping with extreme weather Society Damages / Behaviour Severe weather phenomena present Weather service Observations Forecasts Civ. prot. / other services authorities / media recommendations
GIS tool SOLUTION 1 METEORISK SOLUTION 2 SOLUTION 3
Statistical tool Rain: ~2378 Snow: ~1643 Shortrain: ~ 420
Statistical tool 1 day period
Statistical tool 1 day period 15 day period
Internal – external communication Questions / problems: • How can individually structured weather services be coordinated? • How can user requirements be integrated? (civil prot. – media – public) • PR work is necessary inside and outside the net • warnings (alert levels) have to be clear and concise enough
Internal – external communication • was it all worth it? The enemy of conventional wisdom is not ideas, but the march of events (K. Galbraith 1958)
Internal – external communication • Answers • METEORISK brought more attention to individual weather services and the meteorological community • links to NMS proved to be succesful • homogenized individual informations for different user groups were feasible
Resume make best use of all the data!