Tornado warning trade-offs: Evaluating choices for visually communicating risk

Weather, Climate, and Society

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 104-118

  Ash, Kevin D ^a   Schumann III, Ronald L ^a   Bowser, Gregg C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COMMUNICATION NETWORK; GRAPHICAL METHOD; METEOROLOGICAL HAZARD; PROBABILITY; TORNADO; WARNING SYSTEM;

EID: 84893089948     PISSN: 19488327     EISSN: 19488335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WCAS-D-13-00021.1     Document Type: Article

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