Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0
Title:
Snow Disaster Forecasting System on Roads
Abstract:
We started to construct a snow disaster forecasting system. It is composed of three steps; firstly meteorological conditions, such as temperature, wind speed and direction, short and long wave radiation and amount of snowfall is calculated by regional weather model with a fine space resolution. Secondly the change in the property of snow cover is obtained with SNOWPACK model developed by Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research. Thirdly, based on the above two steps, forecasting of the snow avalanche danger, the decrease in the visibility due to a blowing snow, and the condition of snow and ice along the road were carried out.
Source(s):
13th Standing International Road WEather Conference (SIRWEC), Nagaoka Institute of Snow and Ice Studies (Japan) and Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (Switzerland)
http://www.sirwec.org/Papers/torino/10.pdf
Date: 2006
Author:
Nishimura, et al
Keywords:
Forecast/Prediction
Avalanche
Visibility
Blowing/Drifting snow
Pavement condition
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