Advances in Transportation Meteorology

Dear Colleagues,

Transportation is one of the most crucial fundamentals throughout the world, supporting the daily life of human beings and sustainable development of the whole society. Generally, meteorology emerges various impacts on the transportation operation, safety and efficiency. In the context of global warming, increasing numbers of weather and climate extremes (such as fog, icy roads, and extreme winds) have been detected worldwide and are expected to occur more frequently in the future. Meanwhile, extreme events such as dense fog, rainstorm and blizzard tend to damage the transportation and the traffic facilities (such as express way, port, airport, and high speed railway) and to induce serious traffic blocks and accidents.

In recent decades, concentrated and continuous efforts have been made on meteorological analyses for transportations including the urban traffic, highway, shipping, aviation, etc. Plenty of methods and techniques have been extensively developed to promote the qualities of both observations and forecasts. More recently, state-of-the-art machine learning frameworks have also been widely introduced into studies regarding the transportation meteorology and many other fields.

The current Special Issue seeks original reviews and papers encompassing all aspects, from observations, forecast method, formation mechanism to influence analysis of transportation meteorology and linked extreme events, which aims to span the well-established but rapidly growing field of transportation meteorology and to prevent and reduce the associated hazards more sufficiently.

For all the papers submitted to this Special Issue, an Editorial Board member from Atmosphere who do not have conflict of interest with Nanjing Joint Institute for Atmospheric Sciences will be invited to make decisions to avoid any conflict of interest.

Prof. Dr. Duanyang Liu
Dr. Hongbin Wang
Dr. Shoupeng Zhu
Guest Editors

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