Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0
Title:
Road Climatological Studies with Emphasis on Temperature Variations and Road Slipperiness
Abstract:
This paper is a short summary of the thesis titled Local and Micro Climatological Studies with Emphasis on Temperature Variations and Road Slipperiness, by Maria Karlsson at the Department of Earth Sciences, Physical Geography University of Goteborg, Sweden. The thesis focuses on temperature differences due to varying topogaphy and land use during day and night time. The emphasis has been to analyze and determine the relative importance of factors in a local scale leading to a varying air and road surface temperature pattern. Another point in the thesis deals with the temperature and humidity variations above a road surface. These measurements focus on a physical description of the factors and circumstances leading to risk for road slipperiness.
Source(s):
10th Standing International Road WEather Conference (SIRWEC), Swedish National Road Administration (Sweden)
Date: 2000
Author:
Frimodig, Karlsson
Keywords:
Pavement temperature
Air temperature
Humidity
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