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Effects of winter weather on traffic operations and optimization of signalized intersections

open access: yesJournal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English ed. Online), 2019
Adverse winter weather has always been a cause of traffic congestion and road collisions. To mitigate the negative impacts of winter weather, transportation agencies are under increasing pressure to introduce weather responsive traffic management ...
Zhengyang Lu, Tae J. Kwon, Liping Fu
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Winter Weather Whiplash: Impacts of Meteorological Events Misaligned With Natural and Human Systems in Seasonally Snow‐Covered Regions

open access: yesEarth's Future, 2019
“Weather whiplash” is a colloquial phrase for describing an extreme event that includes shifts between two opposing weather conditions. Prior media coverage and research on these types of extremes have largely ignored winter weather events.
N. J. Casson   +11 more
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Peculiarities of weather and snow accumulation conditions in Moscow region in winter period 2019/2020 [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2020
The study of weather and snow accumulation conditions is important because for example on basis of knowledge on temperature regime and accumulation peculiarities of snow cover the ground freezing depth calculations are performed.
Frolov Denis
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ENSO Impact on Winter Precipitation in the Southeast United States through a Synoptic Climate Approach

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2022
The ENSO impact on winter precipitation in the Southeast United States was analyzed from the perspective of daily weather types (WTs). We calculated the dynamic contribution associated with the change in frequency of the WTs and the thermodynamic ...
Jian-Hua Qian   +4 more
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Winter pressures on the UK health system dominated by the Greenland Blocking weather regime

open access: yesWeather and Climate Extremes, 2019
In many countries, wintertime cold weather is linked to ill-health and intense pressure on public health services. This study examines how both long-term climate change and sub-seasonal variability contribute to the temperature extremes that increase ...
Andrew J. Charlton-Perez   +3 more
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Understanding the cold biases of CMIP5 models over China with weather regimes

open access: yesAdvances in Climate Change Research, 2021
Most models in the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) underestimate the surface air temperature over China in both winter and summer. Understanding the weather regime in association with the simulated temperature variability
Wei Chen   +3 more
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Warm Arctic episodes linked with increased frequency of extreme winter weather in the United States

open access: yesNature Communications, 2018
Whether accelerated Arctic warming is favorable for more frequent severe winter weather remains controversial. Here the authors present an observational analysis that links Arctic warming to severe winter weather, showing that extreme weather is 2–4 ...
Judah Cohen   +2 more
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Sex-specific selective effect of winter weather on morphological traits in a small passerine bird

open access: yesAvian Research, 2023
Harsh environmental conditions often impose strong selection on the phenotype of natural populations through impacts on their fitness. For overwintering birds, winter is an important period for survival because the weather conditions in winter is usually
Yue Wang   +3 more
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The association of cold weather and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the island of Ireland between 1984 and 2007 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work ...
McAvoy, H   +7 more
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VR Human-Centric Winter Lane Detection: Performance and Driving Experience Evaluation

open access: yesSensors
Driving in snowy conditions challenges both human drivers and autonomous systems. Snowfall and ice accumulation impair vehicle control and affect driver perception and performance.
Tatiana Ortegon-Sarmiento   +4 more
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