MULLENS – Summary of an Interdisciplinary Workshop on Risk-Relevant Gaps and Needs in Freezing Rain Science
Daniel Chavas, Jingjing Liang, Mike Baldwin, Mo Zhou, Lindsey Rustad, Christopher McCray, Stephanie DiVito, Rebecca Kartheiser, Esther Mullens
Article first published online: 1 July 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0075.1
On 11–12 October 2021, Purdue University hosted the Purdue Ice Storm Risk Workshop, a 2-day interdisciplinary workshop bringing together over 20 experts from across weather and climate science and a wide range of sectors, including meteorology, climate, forestry, energy, aviation, agriculture, and economics. Freezing rain, even in small amounts, can cause acute, devastating impacts across multiple sectors each year. Yet this topic has received little research attention compared to other major meteorological hazards, and the community that studies it is relatively small. The workshop’s primary goal was to bring this community of scientists and stakeholders together to generate a road map of risk-relevant knowledge gaps in freezing rain science and critical avenues to fill those gaps.
Read the full publication in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.