Dissemination of weather information to emergency managers: A decision support tool

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 106-114

  Subramaniam, Chandran ^a   Kerpedjiev, Stephan ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support tool; Dissemination; Emergency management; Flash flooding; Meteoassert; Multimodal presentation; Weather information

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FIRE HAZARDS; FLOODS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0032071840     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/17.669743     Document Type: Article

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