85th AMS Annual Meeting

Session 6: Advances and Applications in Transportation Weather Part 1: Surface Transportation

Tuesday, 11 January 2005: 8:30 AM-12:15 PM
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Cochairs:  S. Edward Boselly, Washington State Department of Transportation and Roemer Alfelor, Federal Highway Administration
Papers:
  8:30 AM
6.1
Surface Transportation and the Weather, A Highway Operations Perspective
Richard J. Nelson, Nevada Department of Transportation, Carson City, NV

  8:45 AM
6.2
Partnering to achieve a safer and more efficient national surface transportation system: Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Transportation Department’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and A. Holman, R. Dombrowsky, S. Matula, J. O'Sullivan, P. Schultz, and F. Estis

  Recorded presentation
  9:00 AM
6.3
Clarus—The Nationwide Surface Transportation Weather Observing and Forecasting System
Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and R. M. Alfelor, J. S. Pol, L. C. Goodwin, and A. D. Stern

  Recorded presentation Poster PDF (472.8 kB)
  9:15 AM
6.4
Development of the Clarus Concept of Operations: Status report
Leon F. Osborne Jr., Meridian Environmental Technology, Inc., Grand Forks, ND; and S. M. Conger, J. S. Pol, and P. Pisano

  Recorded presentation
  9:30 AM
6.5
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration Winter Road Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) Project: Overview and Results
Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and A. D. Stern and W. P. Mahoney III

  Recorded presentation Poster PDF (844.5 kB)
  9:45 AM
6.6
The Pooled Fund Study Maintenance Decision Support System: A Functional Overview
John J. Mewes, Meridian Environmental Technology, Inc., Grand Forks, ND; and R. Hart, L. F. Osborne Jr., and B. Podoll

Poster PDF (383.2 kB)
  10:00 AM
6.7
On the use of an ensemble modeling system versus a very high resolution deterministic forecast as input to a road weather forecast system
Jeffrey S. Tilley, Surface Transportation Weather Research Center, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and J. Nordlie

  Recorded presentation
  10:15 AM
6.8
Mesoscale forecast products for travel information
Ed Boselly, Washington State Department of Transportation, Olympia, WA

  Recorded presentation
  10:30 AM
6.9
A field research test facility for long-term RWIS-ESS Validation
Leon F. Osborne Jr., Surface Transportation Weather Research Center, Grand Forks, ND; and J. Hanson, J. L. Horner, and R. Hart

  Recorded presentation
  10:45 AM
6.10
An Automated Algorithm to Predict Winter Storm Road Conditions and Recommend Treatment Actions
Robert G. Hallowell, MIT Lincoln Lab., Lexington, MA; and W. Myers and G. Phetteplace

  Recorded presentation
  11:00 AM
6.5A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

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