Session 4A |
| | Advances and Applications in Transportation Weather |
| | Cochairs: S. Edward Boselly, Weather Solutions Group, Olympia, WA; David J. Pace, SAIC, Washington, DC; Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC
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| 1:30 PM | 4A.1 | The safety, mobility and economic benefits of advanced weather applications and research for surface transportation planning and operations
Samuel P. Williamson, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and F. L. Estis |
| 1:45 PM | 4A.2 | Analysis of Weather Events on U.S. Railroads 
Michael A. Rossetti, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA |
| 2:00 PM | 4A.3 | The effects of residual chemical on the road during blowing/drifting snow events
Benjamin Hershey, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and L. F. Osborne Jr. |
| 2:15 PM | 4A.4 | The challenges of staisfying road weather users in times of changing technolgoy
Leon F. Osborne Jr., Meridian Environmental Technology, Inc. and University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND |
| 2:30 PM | 4A.5 | Evolution of the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Clarus Initiative: Project Status and Future Plans 
Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and J. S. Pol, A. D. Stern, B. C. Boyce, and J. K. Garrett |
| 2:45 PM | 4A.6 | Vehicles as Mobile Sensing Platforms for Meteorological Observations: A First Look
Andrew D. Stern, Mitretek Systems, Inc., Falls Church, VA; and P. A. Pisano, J. S. Pol, V. Shah, K. J. Biesecker, and C. Yeung |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
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| 3:30 PM | 4A.7 | An Automated Visibility Detection Algorithm Utilizing Camera Imagery
Robert G. Hallowell, MIT Lincoln Lab., Lexington, MA; and M. Matthews and P. A. Pisano |
| 3:45 PM | 4A.8 | Road weather sensor data validation
Jennifer Hanson, Surface Transportation Weather Research Center, Grand Forks, ND; and L. F. Osborne and M. Askelson |
| 4:00 PM | 4A.9 | Modeling road pavement temperatures with skin temperature observations from the Oklahoma Mesonet
Jessica M. Rathke, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. A. McPherson |
| 4:15 PM | 4A.10 | On the use of satellite cloud top pressure data in the estimation of snowfall occurrence and precipitation rates
Mark Askelson, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND |
| 4:30 PM | 4A.11 | Analysis of pavement radiation loading through pavement temperature
Adam Mohr, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and L. F. Osborne Jr. |
|  | 4A.12 | Development of automated systems for analysis and forecasting of ceiling and visibility for aviation
Paul H. Herzegh, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Wiener, R. Bateman, A. Braeckel, J. Cowie, J. Simard, and B. Weekley |
| 4:45 PM | 4A.13 | An exploration of an automated analysis product for ceiling and visibility: potential impacts on general aviation weather decision making
Richard E. Bateman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. Herzegh |
| 5:00 PM | 4A.14 | A Forecaster's Perspective of, and Post Analysis on, the April 2, 2006 Severe Weather Outbreak
Phil Zuzolo, The Boeing Company, Springfield, VA |