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Investigation of winter weather crash injury severity using winter storm classification techniques
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary PerspectivesThis study employs a unique methodology for analyzing seasonal traffic crashes by first identifying adverse winter-weather events using traditional traffic-crash data (from Nebraska) and correlating them to detailed meteorological data for subsequent ...
Curtis L. Walker +4 more
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Geosciences, 2019 This paper evaluates the effect of inclement weather conditions on the travel demand for three classes of vehicles for a primary highway in the province of Alberta, Canada. The demand variables are passenger cars, trucks, and total traffic.
Hyuk-Jae Roh +6 more
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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 1987 The Great Lakes area, the East Coast, and the southern rim of the United States may experience relatively stormy, wet weather this winter, according to the winter weather forecast for the continental United States from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service (NWS; see Figure 1).
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, 1998 Trials were begun in 1989 at the Georgeson Botanical Garden (64°51’N, 147° 52’W, elevation 475 feet; 136 meters) to evaluate the hardiness and ornamental potential of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous perennial ornamentals. Woody ornamentals are tested for
Gibson, Jane +3 more
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Scaling in Fracture and Refreezing of Sea Ice
, 2003 Sea ice breaks up and regenerates rapidly during winter conditions in the Arctic. Analyzing satellite data from the Kara Sea, we find that the average ice floe size depends on weather conditions.
A. Hansen +16 more
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Bean leaf beetles: a current and historical perspective [PDF]
, 2003 In 2002, bean leaf beetle populations in Iowa reached their highest levels in 14 years (figure, left). In Iowa, this increase in beetle populations has been partly fueled by weather conditions that favor winter survival, such as mild temperatures (2001 ...
Bradshaw, Jeffrey D., Rice, Marlin E.
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Hedging by using weather derivatives in winter ski tourism [PDF]
Ekonomika Poljoprivrede (1979), 2018 Tourism, as one of the main driving forces of economic development, is exposed to many risks. Besides frequent fluctuations in foreign currency exchange, prices of fuel and transportation, the tourism industry has become more sensitive to weather ...
Đorđević Bojan S.
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A survey of major east coast snowstorms, 1960-1983. Part 2: Case studies of eighteen storms [PDF]
Snowfall, surface and upper air charts, and available satellite images are presented for eighteen major East Coast snowstorms that occurred between 1960 and 1983.
Kocin, P. J., Uccellini, L. W.
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2015 Europe has suffered several extreme weather events which were responsible for considerable ecological and economic losses in the last few decades. In Southern Europe, droughts are one of the most frequent extreme weather events, causing severe damages ...
Ana Cristina Russo +5 more
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Great Lakes all-weather ice information system [PDF]
A system is described which utilizes an X-band Side-Looking-Airborne-Radar (SLAR) for determining type, location, and aerial distribution of the ice cover in the Great Lakes and an airborne, S-band, short pulse radar for obtaining ice thickness. The SLAR
Cooper, D. W. +7 more
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