Foresight session 4 - SIRWEC Conference Part 1
Wednesday, March 11
14:00
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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 is designed to re-establish that connection by embedding SIRWEC 2026 as a ‘mini conference within a conference’ here in Chambery 2026.
Our mini conference is held over two sessions with each containing solicited presentations from SIRWEC colleagues. This first session loosely focuses on advances on road weather forecasting.
Welcome and session introduction
• Lee Chapman, SIRWEC Secretary, United Kingdom
Presentations
Extending the RMI road weather forecasting system with depth temperature assimilation and an ML-based road weather model
• Joris Van den Bergh, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Belgium
The use of probabilistic forecasting in winter road forecasting at SMHI
• Emelie Karlsson, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden
Modernising Road Weather Forecasts: Next-Generation Land Surface Modelling and Visualisation
• Alex Little, Met Office, UK
Road weather forecasts with the NORTRIP model and road side observations
• Elin Ristorp Aas, MET Norway, Norway
Nowcasting on the edge: Using the Internet of Things to Forecast Road Surface Temperature
• Lee Chapman, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
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