Evaluation of fog predictions and detection, Phase 2 : draft final report.

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• Alternative Title:
  Evaluation of fog predictions and detection, Phase 2.
• Creators:
  Ray, Peter S.
• Corporate Creators:
  Florida State University. Dept. of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science
• Corporate Contributors:
  Florida. Department of Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Fog
  • Weather forecasting
  • Information processing
  • Soils by moisture content or potential
  • Soil water
  • Rainfall
  • Detection and identification
  • Remote sensing
  • Radar rainfall
  • measurement of soil moisture
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  BDV30 977-14
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Florida
• Corporate Publisher:
  Florida State University. Dept. of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science
• Abstract:
  On January 29, 2012 at about 4:00 am a thick fog and smoke caused a multiple car crash just south of Gainesville, Florida. 11 people were killed and 18 were hospitalized. Nationally there are about 38,000 fog related accidents which result in about 620 fatalities. It would be valuable to anticipate where and when fog will form. It that is through numerical models, the environmental factors are the requisite input. One of these is soil moisture. It is found a very economical way with no loss is accuracy is to use NWS collected radar accumulated rainfall instead of expensive soil measurements.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  BDV30 977-14
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/31887/dot_31887_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 13.63 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:bbe94de5e62fe06e60adc12a16ebf9bceaeff0be865c69ddb401a945a1cb8931