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Preliminary Programme of the Conference
History of SIRWEC Conferences
Sponsors of SIRWEC 2004
Auli Keskinen: Road Weather 30 Years - Hindsight, Insight, Foresight
Session I: Climatology, Weather Conditions
Submitted Papers Topic II: Forecast Methods and Accuracy
Tobias Grimbacher, Willi Schmid: Nowcasting nocturnal cloudiness with an ultra-dense road weather
measurement network
U. Gjertsen, J. I. Dahl, V. Odegaard, A. Kristensen: Monitoring precipitation intensity and typecombined use of radar and temperature measurements
Miroslav Skuthan: The significance of the severe events warning service in relation to the classic methods of
road meteorology
Eros Pasero et al.: NEMEFO: Neural Meteorological Forecast
Philip Hopwood: Improvements in road forecasting techniques & their applications
Michael Rohn, Wolfgang E. Raatz: Providing an Optimized Dataset for Road Weather Forecasts
Bent H. Sass, Claus Petersen: A coupled automatic road-weather forecasting system
Lee Chapman, John E. Thornes: Road ice prediction using geomatics
John E. Thornes, Gina Cavan, Lee Chapman: The use GIS and icemiser to predict winter rosd surface temperatures in Poland
Horst Badelt, Karl Moritz: Use of Data on Road Condition and Weather for Winter Maintenance
Ludwig Z'graggen: Average Diurnal Temperature Devolution for Different Weather Situations
- a Prognostic Aid for Regions with Complex Topography
Olivier Liechti: Topographical boundary layer model for road weather prediction
Submitted Papers Topic III: Sensors and Equipment
Submitted Papers Topic IV: Presentation and Interpretation of
Road Weather Information Data
Submitted Papers Topic V: Winter Maintenance Management Systems,
Methods and Policy