Weather Warnings - Introduction
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Why do we need warnings? What are the basic ingredients of warnings? What are the different types of warnings? Warnings as part of the disaster risk reduction (DRR) cycle; The importance of interactions and understanding of the users, their volurnabilities, the information needed for desicion making, the lead time needed, the importance of building trust/credebility ; Case studies - Hurricane Katrina, European HeatWave 2003
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