Maintenance personnel must decide what treatments to apply, and when to apply them, based on their knowledge of current pavement conditions, current and forecasted weather conditions, as well as available maintenance techniques and resources. In large part, current decisions are based upon prior ...
Current efforts include a robust atmospheric sciences physics package closely coupled with a mesoscale weather prediction model to simulate blowing and drifting snow conditions. This effort is being tested during winter 2004-05 MDSS field experiments across the Upper Midwest. A field validation effort ...