Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0
Title:
Development of an Internationally Applicable Geographic, Meteorological and Snow Cover Information System to Support Road Maintenance Operations
Abstract:
A new Java-based information system to support wintry road maintenance operations is under construction. It was designed to combine modules related to geographic, meteorological and snow cover information. To facilitate international application, it was based on global topographic datasets such as products from the Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM, horizontal resolution < 100m) and on a meteorological forecast model data interface compatible with NetCDF and GrADS-readable formats. The downscaling system VERA (Vienna Enhanced Resolution Analysis), based on high-resolution terrain information, will be applied to add detail to meteorological model forecasts and to improve the analysis, using the readings of road weather stations.
Source(s):
13th Standing International Road WEather Conference (SIRWEC); University of Vienna, Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics (Austria)
Date: 2006
Author:
Spreitzhofer, Steinacker
Keywords:
Decision support
Forecast/Prediction
Snow
Weather information
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