WeatherZine is a bi-monthly on-line and e-mail distribution newsletter for the Societal Aspects of Weather WWW Site. The site serves scholars and practitioners interested in the relation of society and weather.
WeatherZine was developed to keep people updated on developments at the site as well as news and events of interest to the community. It is distributed through the WeatherZine majordomo listserver.
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The Societal Aspects of Weather WWW site is an experimental
project sponsored by the U.S. Weather Research Program
(USWRP). The U.S. Weather Research Program is an interagency
effort of the federal government with a goal of improving forecasts
of weather phenomena in order to contribute to a reduction in
society's vulnerability to weather.
The purpose of the WWW site on the Societal Aspects of Weather
is to provide a community resource to a range of scholars and
practitioners who are interested in the relation of society and
weather. Ultimately, we'd like to see the site contribute to the
development of a network of scholars from a range of disciplines
and decision makers from a variety of sectors. For the site to be
successful, we will need your participation, in order to both shape
the evolution of the site as well as to contribute materials that
you would like to disseminate and others might find useful.
Currently, some of our objectives with the site are the following:
* to provide a central repository of current resources on the
economic and other human impacts of weather;
The site is overseen by the Environmental and Societal Impacts
Group (ESIG) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research
(NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
* to provide a wide range of annotated links (continuously updated)
to sites on the WWW that contain useful information and contacts
related to the societal aspects of weather;
* to provide a "virtual journal" that would present, on a periodic
basis, a listing of published journal articles relevant to the societal
aspects of weather. Because scholars who are interested in
society's relation with weather come from many disciplines,
their publications appear in hundreds of different journals
(if not more!). With your help, we hope to simplify the task of
becoming aware of first rate scholarship that might not
otherwise come to your attention;
* to provide users of weather information a resource to connect
with the producers of weather information, and vice versa. We
intend to accomplish this through WWW links, contact
information, and providing access to information on how weather
information is produced and utilized.