SITE SPECIFIC ROAD SURFACE TEMPERATURE FORECAST IMPROVEMENTS BY USE OF RADIATION MEASUREMENTS

A road surface temperature forecast with high accuracy is an essential tool within a road weather information system (RWIS). Today the Swedish RWIS consists of more than 550 outstations. These stations represent different kinds of microclimates and local climates such as bridges, frost hollows, shaded road sections, hills, etc. To be able to produce a road surface temperature forecast that the maintenance crew could use to take preventive action, it must be designed to be site specific. In recent years research and development of forecast models have been focused on the fact that site specific conditions must be included in a model to produce high quality results.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.iac.ethz.ch/staff/wueest/sirwec/conferences/sapporo2002/bogren.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Standing International Road Weather Commission

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• Authors:
  • BOGREN, J
  • GUSTAVSSON, T
• Conference:
  • 11th International Road Weather Conference (http://www.sirwec.org)
  • Location: Sapporo, Japan
  • Date: 2002-1-26 to 2002-1-28
• Publication Date: 2002-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 5p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accuracy; Bridges; Climatic regions; Maintenance; Preventive maintenance; Road weather information systems; Surface course (Pavements); Weather forecasting
• Geographic Terms: Sweden
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00941963
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 5 2003 12:00AM