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Article: Urban modification of freezing-rain events
- Article from:
- Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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ABSTRACT
A new national database for freezing-rain occurrences during the 1945-2000 period provided an opportunity lor a study of the potential urban effects on freezing-rain events. Numerous past studies of snowfall events in urban areas have defined decreases of 10%-35% related to the urban heat island. The heat island, which acts to elevate near-surface temperatures, could also keep some freezing-rain situations from occurring in the city. The study involved four cities in the Midwest and Northeast for which the average annual number of days with freezing rain are three or more, for which data from in-city stations existed, and for which data for several surrounding rural stations ...