The impact of weather and climate on transport in the UK
Climate ; Forecast;Prediction ; Impact ; Technology ; Transport ; United Kingdom ; Weather type
An attempt is made to classify the impact of weather and climate upon air, rail, road and water transport by considering for each : climatic design and required levels of maintenance; weather sensitivity and thresholds; weatherforecasting and new
Competitive learning experiences : the role of weatherforecasting contests in geography programs
A pedagogic strategy at all educational levels in teaching about the atmosphere, weather and climate involves in-class contests on weatherforecasting. - (DWG)
Information not data : future development of road weather information systems
Applied climatology ; Climatic event ; Geographical information system ; Road ; Road traffic ; Sweden ; Weatherforecast
micro- and local climate variations is crucial when it comes to forecasting and giving warnings about different kinds of weather-related traffic disturbances. The progress of climatological research has made it possible to increase the use of road
The Swedish Road Weather Information System is a tool for road winter maintenance giving warnings about risk of slipperiness and severe weather conditions. The system is based on climatological research at the University of Göteborg. Knowledge about
time or concentration time of the system. Efforts to extend the forecasting horizon are concentrated on the development of procedures to estimate future precipitation. Are weather radar data useful to the flood forecasting model of the river Meuse
James Edward Church, Jr., and the development of snow surveying for runoff forecasting
Climatology ; Forecast ; History of geography ; Measurement ; Nevada ; Runoff ; Snow ; United States of America
History of measuring snow in the Sierra Nevada of the western USA, the effort of a Nevada professor who became the world's leading cryologist (scientist of cold weather). - (DWG)
Atlantic Ocean ; Cluster analysis ; Coastal environment ; Forecast ; Index ; Rainstorm ; Southern United States ; Tornado ; United States of America ; Weatherforecast ; Weather type ; Years 1980-89
Severe weatherforecasting index values are derived for 129 Southern Atlantic (SA) Coast (South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia) and 98 southern Great Plains (Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas) tornado days through spatial and temporal
interpolations of the proximity balloon soundings. Analyses of these data suggest that the 2 regions are associated with significantly different environments. Therefore, the universal use of index threshold values by forecasters is inappropriate.
The relationship of extreme precipitation events to weather conditions in Nordland, Norway
Air mass ; Avalanche ; Forecast ; Heavy rain ; Landslide ; Norway ; Orographic effect ; Precipitation ; Weather type ; Wind
The AA. examined the distribution of extreme daily precipitations events in relation to weather conditions, in the county of Nordland. Precipitation data included 88 weather stations and cover the period January 1964 - March 2002. Over this period
were classified as warm sector precipitation. It may be important to re-evaluate the forecasting criteria for heavy rain in north Norway.
Applied climatology ; Bibliography ; Climatic data ; Climatology ; Communication ; Forecast ; Global change ; Palaeoclimate ; Source of documentation
of the diverse sources of information on the Net. Many of the sites listed are jumping-off points with links that can be quickly accessed on a'point and click basis. The main types of information are : current and recent weather data and forecasts; climate
Fot the climatologists free access to meteorological datasets and information is particularly useful, both for monitoring short-term weather changes and for capturing data for research projects. The A. has tried to give a guide to some