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Cloud impacts on road pavement temperature and shortwave radiation Cloud Impacts on Pavement Temperature and Shortwave Radiation Curtis Walker 8 October 2015 Advisor: Dr. Mark Anderson Committee Members: Dr. Jun Wang, Dr. Clinton Rowe Impacts of Adverse Weather on Roads • Safety – 24% of U.S. Highway crashes are weather-related; ~673,000 injuries • Economic – Avg. cost per crash is $14,100; congestion costs ~$9.5 billion • Environmental – Air quality and local watershed pollution • Social – Inconvenience of traffic delays Pisano et al. 2008 Pavement Temperature-Cloud Problem Local Model Observed 1 June 2012, Dover Speedway road pavement temperature model comparison study with/without full cloud cover Drobot et al. 2012 Clouds and Radiative Transfer Inbound Shortwave Cloud Properties: Radiation Albedo • Optical Thickness • Particles (ice vs. liquid) • Cloud Type (Chen et al. 2000; Wang et al. 2008) Absorption Scattering Transmission Sensible Road Temperature Thesis Research Objectives Determine influence of cloud cover on road pavement temperature and surface radiation variability  Quantify how cloud cover affects pavement temperature and sur