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Article: An Automated Synoptic Typing Procedure to Predict Freezing Rain: An Application to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Article from:
- Weather and Forecasting
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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ABSTRACT
Freezing rain is a major weather hazard that can compromise human safety, significantly disrupt transportation, and damage and disrupt built infrastructure such as telecommunication towers and electrical transmission and distribution lines. In this study, an automated synoptic typ
ing and logistic regression analysis were applied together to predict freezing rain events. The synoptic typing was developed using principal components analysis, an average linkage clustering procedure, and discriminant function analysis to classify the weather types most likely to be associated with freezing rain events for the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Meteorological data used in the analysis ...