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Foresight session 4 - SIRWEC Conference Part 1

Wednesday, March 11 14:00 - 15:30
Chair: Lee Chapman, SIRWEC Secretary, United Kingdom
Room: Room 5

The Standing International Road Weather Conference has been held every two years since 1984. For much of that time, every other event had been co-located with PIARC, but this connection has recently been lost. This foresight session was designed to re-establish that connection by embedding SIRWEC 2026 as a “mini conference within a conference” in Chambéry in 2026.

The mini conference was held over two sessions, each featuring invited presentations from SIRWEC colleagues. The first session focused broadly on advances in road weather forecasting.

  1. Welcome and session introduction
  2. Presentations
  3. Open Session & Conclusions
  4. Organization

Welcome and session introduction

Presentations

  • Extending the RMI road weather forecasting system with depth temperature assimilation and an ML-based road weather model
    • Joris VAN DEN BERGH (Belgium) - Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
    Presentation Presentation (pdf - 5.5MB)
  • The use of probabilistic forecasting in winter road forecasting at SMHI
    • Emelie KARLSSON (Sweden) - Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
    Presentation Presentation (pdf - 3.4MB)
  • Modernising Road Weather Forecasts: Next-Generation Land Surface Modelling and Visualisation
    • Alex LITTLE (Met Office, United Kingdom)
    Presentation Presentation (pdf - 2.9MB)
  • Road weather forecasts with the NORTRIP model and road side observations
    • Elin RISTORP AAS (MET Norway, Norway)
    Presentation Presentation (pdf - 3.4MB)
  • How to Incorporate Weather Variability and Climatic Trends in Winter Road Maintenance Simulations? - A Case Study in Norway
    • Nafiseh MOHAMMADI (NTNU, Norway)
    Presentation Presentation (pdf - 3.0MB)
  • Nowcasting on the edge: Using the Internet of Things to Forecast Road Surface Temperature
    • Lee Chapman CHAPMAN (United Kingdom) - University of Birmingham
    Presentation Presentation (pdf - 3.9MB)

Open Session & Conclusions

• Lee Chapman, SIRWEC Secretary, United Kingdom

Organization

Session Organiser: Lee Chapman, SIRWEC Secretary, United Kingdom
Session Secretary: Lee Chapman, SIRWEC Secretary, United Kingdom