Evaluation of Fog Predictions and Detection Phase 2
On January 29, 2012 at about 4:00 am a thick fog and smoke caused a multiple car crash just south of Gainesville, Florida. 11 people were killed and 18 were hospitalized. Nationally there are about 38,000 fog related accidents which result in about 620 fatalities. It would be valuable to anticipate where and when fog will form. If that is through numerical models, the environmental factors are the requisite input. One of these is soil moisture. It is found a very economical way with no loss in accuracy is to use National Weather Service (NWS) collected radar accumulated rainfall instead of expensive soil measurements.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Cover date: October 2016.
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Corporate Authors:
Florida State University, Tallahassee
Department of Earch, Ocean and Atmospheric Science
Meteorology Program
Tallahassee, FL United States 32306Florida Department of Transportation
605 Suwannee Street
Tallahassee, FL United States 32399-0450 -
Authors:
- Ray, Peter S
- Publication Date: 2016-9-1
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Edition: Final Report
- Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; References;
- Pagination: 63p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Data analysis; Fog; Measuring methods; Radar; Rainfall; Remote sensing; Soil water; Weather forecasting
- Identifier Terms: U.S. National Weather Service
- Geographic Terms: Florida
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Environment; Highways;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01630080
- Record Type: Publication
- Contract Numbers: BDV30 977 — 14
- Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Mar 27 2017 9:30AM