Session 18 |
| Advances and Applications in Transportation Weather Part II (ROOM 6B) |
| Cochairs: Ed Boselly, Washington State Department of Transportation, Olympia, WA; David Pace, SAIC, Washington, DC
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| 1:30 PM | 18.1 | Probabilistic Forecasts of Cloud Impacts at San Francisco International Airport F. Wesley Wilson, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 1:45 PM | 18.2 | Graphical Forecasts For Aviation Jack May, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Kansas City, MO; and M. Andrews |
| 2:00 PM | 18.3 | Temporal and spatial behavior of visibility obtained from Runway Visual Range (RVR) sensors during snowfall events at several major airports Thomas A. Seliga, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; and D. A. Hazen and S. Burnley |
| 2:15 PM | 18.4 | The Winter Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS): Demonstration Results and Future Plans Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and A. D. Stern and W. P. Mahoney |
| 2:30 PM | 18.5 | Case Study Verification of the Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) for the 2003 Operational Demonstration Jamie K. Wolff, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. C. Bernstein and S. Linden |
| 2:45 PM | 18.6 | The efficacy of plug-and-play components for promoting the successful deployment of Maintenance Decision Support Systems for surface transportation Leon F. Osborne, Jr., Meridian Environemental Technology, Inc., Grand Forks, ND; and D. K. Rand |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
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| 3:30 PM | 18.7 | An evaluation of the receptivity of new technological approaches to winter maintenance within the states involved in the Maintenance Decision Support System Pooled Fund Study Robert D. Hart, Meridian Environmental Technology, Inc., Grand Forks, ND; and L. F. Osborne, Jr. and D. Huft |
| 3:44 PM | 18.8 | Paper moved to Session 17, New paper number 17.9A
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| 3:45 PM | 18.9 | A dynamic—stochastic approach to road and bridge frost forecasting John J. Mewes, Meridian Environmental Technology, Inc., Grand Forks, ND; and R. Hart |
| 4:00 PM | 18.10 | Evaluation of the accuracy of road and bridge forecasts provided to the Iowa DOT John J. Mewes, Meridian Environmental Technology, Inc., Grand Forks, ND; and R. Hart and D. Burkheimer |
| 4:15 PM | 18.11 | RWIS Applications of MesoWest in the Western United States John D. Horel, NOAA/CIRP and Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. Splitt |
| 4:30 PM | 18.12 | Weather research for surface transportation: the roadway environment John T. Snow, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. C. Staudt |
| 4:45 PM | 18.13 | An automated real-time road weather system (ARROWS) for highway maintenance personnel S. Edward Boselly, Washington State Department of Transportation, Olympia, WA |
| 5:00 PM | 18.14 | Investigation of atmospheric dependencies on spring load restriction limits imposed by state transportation agencies Jennifer L. Hanson, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and L. F. Osborne |