Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

Applications of a Roadway Frost Prediction System in Iowa

Abstract:

Various predictive systems have been explored to determine the best method to predict frost formation. Several different road frost, weather, and road temperature forecasts were examined and verified against human observations of frost on a bridge in Ames, Iowa during the winter of 2001-02. A frost deposition model was used to determine accumulated frost depth.

Source(s):

83rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting; 19th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology; Iowa State Univ and NOAA

http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/56029.pdf

Date: 2003

Author:

Temeyer, Gallus Jr., Takle, Greenfield, Jungbluth

Keywords:

Weather information
Pavement temperature
Environmental Sensor Station (ESS)
Forecast/Prediction
Ice/Frost

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