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Weather Information, Surface Transportation

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Weather analysis; Weather forecasting

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Surface Transportation Weather is a general term referring to weather analysis and forecasting services customized toward surface transportation industries. Surface transportation itself is a generalized term usually referring collectively to transportation by road, rail, water or pipeline, as well as the ground operations of the aviation industry. The operation of these industries can be severely impacted by adverse weather conditions. As such, successful management of these industries often requires highly specialized, location- and time-specific weather consulting services in order to improve transportation safety, efficiency and reliability by planning for these adverse weather conditions.

Surface Transportation Weather is by definition a cross‐disciplinary industry. Persons providing services in this industry generally have some level of expertise in both weather and one or more surface transportation industries. The...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Meridian Environmental Technology, Inc., Grand Forks, ND, USA

    John J. Mewes, Stephen G. Gaddy, Robert D. Hart & Leon F. Osborne

  2. Regional Weather Information Center, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA

    Leon F. Osborne

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  1. John J. Mewes
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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Shashi Shekhar (McKnight Distinguished University Professor) (McKnight Distinguished University Professor)

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School Newark and New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA

    Hui Xiong (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

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Mewes, J., Gaddy, S., Hart, R., Osborne, L. (2008). Weather Information, Surface Transportation. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_1475

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