BACKGROUND Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of injury mortality. Adverse weather and road conditions have the potential to affect the likelihood of motor vehicle fatalities through several pathways. However, there remains a dearth of assessments associating adverse weather conditions to fatal crashes in the United States. We assessed trends in motor vehicle fatalities associated with a...

The oceans of the Earth work in concert with the atmosphere to control and regulate the environment. Fed by the sun, the interaction of land, ocean, and atmosphere produces the phenomenon of weather and climate. Only in the past half-century meteorologists have begun to understand weather patterns well enough to produce relatively accurate, although limited, forecasts of future weather patterns...

The Weather is a continuous, data-intensive, multidimensional, dynamic process that makes weather forecasting a formidable challenge. Weather forecasting involves predicting how the present state of the atmosphere will change. Climate is the long-term effect of the sun's radiation on the rotating earth's varied surface and atmosphere. The Day-byday variations in a given area constitute the weat...

Among modeling languages Unified Modeling Language (UML) has become most popular. UML is commonly used in the design and implementation of any system and software architectures. To achieve functional and non functional requirements of the system UML model helps. In order to initiate the programming phase of building software UML tools enabled the creation of source code from UML diagram. The ma...

This paper describes a weather-impacted traffic index based on three-dimensional weather information and applies it to air traffic delay estimation. The weather-impacted traffic indices were generated using the high-resolution Corridor Integrated Weather System, which provides accurate, automated and high update rate information on both convective weather location and echo tops. In contrast to ...

Weather forecasting is a crucial phenomenon in today’s world. Though weather prediction is completely automated, with the help of tools like Weather Research & Forecasting (WRF), Advanced Research WRF (ARW), Weather Processing System (WPS), it’s a ever challenging and a topic of interest because prediction is not an accurate always. Weather forecasting is a continuous, high dimensional, dynamic...

A significant increase in the awareness of the need for improved surface transportation weather services has occurred over the last five years. During this time, a coordinated national effort has been undertaken to highlight the unmet weather needs of the transportation community and identify research requirements and implementation strategies for improved weather services. The benefits of such...