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Weather and Climate Change Implications for Surface Transportation in the USA
Bulletin nº Vol 58 (2) - 2009
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Publish Date: 1 April 2009
Weather affects the operation of the transportation systems that we all rely on—from automobiles slowed by a wet surface, to delivery trucks delayed by high winds, to passenger trains stalled by ice and snow.
Meteorological Services to Aviation
Bulletin nº Vol 58 (2) - 2009
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Publish Date: 1 April 2009
Wilbur also requested and scrutinized US Weather Bureau data, and selected Kitty Hawk after writing to the government meteorologist stationed there. Thus began a relationship between aviators and meteorologists in the lead-up to the first controlled powered flight by Wilbur and Orville Wright in 1903.
Meteorology and Marine Transportation
Bulletin nº Vol 58 (2) - 2009
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Publish Date: 1 April 2009
According to the Book of Genesis, the third day of the creation process saw the separation of land and sea. This clearly provided a medium for transportation over long distances for the humans still to be created and at the same time laid the groundwork for the new science and profession of marine meteorology.
Meteorology for Travellers
Bulletin nº Vol 58 (2) - 2009
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Publish Date: 1 April 2009
Everyone travels at some time in his or her life. With the advent of low-cost air travel, more people travel farther and faster than ever before in human history.
Weather monitoring and forecasting services for provincial highways and railways in China
Bulletin nº Vol 58 (2) - 2009
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Publish Date: 1 April 2009
Along with the rapid increases in volumes of traffic, safety has become an increasing challenge. Severe weather is one of the main causes of traffic accidents.
Obituaries
Weather, Climate, Climate services, Water, Forecast, Research, Floods, Drought, Environment, Aviation
Bulletin nº Vol 58 (2) - 2009
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Publish Date: 1 April 2009
Eric Bobinski Eric Bobinski died in Warsaw, Poland, on 30 August 2008. He was born in 1926 in Moscow, where he spent his childhood and youth. In 1947, Eric went...
Meteorological Services For Transportation
Weather, Climate, Climate services, Water, Data exchange, Climate change, Aviation, Floods
Bulletin nº Vol 58 (2) - 2009
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Publish Date: 1 April 2009
Activities involving transportation are inherently more sensitive to weather events than activities that are located in a single place. Consider an individual contemplating a ten minute walk to his favourite coffee shop: indoors, he is not particularly weather-sensitive but once outdoors, the situation changes substantially.