Modeling wet snow accretion on power lines: Improvements to previous methods using 50 years of observations

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2189-2203

  Nygaard, Bjørn Egil Kringlebotn ^a   Ágústsson, Hálfdán ^b   Somfalvi Tóth, Katalin ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c HUNGARIAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION RATE; COMPLEX TERRAINS; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; LARGE DATASETS; OPERATIONAL FORECASTS; SEVERE WEATHER; STICKING EFFICIENCIES; WEATHER STATIONS;

COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC LINES; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

SNOW;

ACCRETION; COMPLEX TERRAIN; MODELING; POWER LINE; SEVERE WEATHER; SNOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ICELAND;

EID: 84886667869     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0332.1     Document Type: Article

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