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Download or read book Climatological Characterization of Snowfall and Snow Drift in Minnesota (for the Design of Living Snow Fences) written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martha Elizabeth Durr Shulski
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Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Climatological Characterization of Wind and Snowfall in Minnesota and Assessing the Impacts of Living Snow Fences written by Martha Elizabeth Durr Shulski and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald D. Tabler
Publisher : Strategic Highway Research Program (Shrp)
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Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Design Guidelines for the Control of Blowing and Drifting Snow written by Ronald D. Tabler and published by Strategic Highway Research Program (Shrp). This book was released on 1994 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book 24th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Wyatt
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Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Economic and Environmental Costs and Benefits of Living Snow Fences written by Gary Wyatt and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blowing and drifting snow on Minnesota's roadways is a transportation efficiency and safety concern. Establishing standing corn rows and living snow fences improves driver visibility, road surface conditions, and has the potential to lower costs of road maintenance as well as accidents attributed to blowing and drifting snow. It also has the potential to sequester carbon and avoid the carbon emissions of snow removal operations. In recent years the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) has paid farmers to leave standing corn rows to protect identified snow problem roadways. They have paid farmers $1.50 per bushel above market price. With increasing demand for corn to fuel the ethanol industry, paying $1.50 per bushel above market price may not be sufficient incentive for leaving standing corn rows. Also, with MnDOT's memorandum of understanding with USDA to plant living snow fences through the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), now is an opportune time to review MnDOT's annual payment structure to farmers and prepare a new one. This project has: 1) developed a calculator to estimate payments for farmers that includes consideration of safety and snow removal cost savings; 2) estimated potential income from carbon payments; 3) worked closely with MnDOT engineers and plow operators, estimated the safety and snow removal costs and carbon emissions avoided by MnDOT through establishing living snow fences; and 4) evaluated farmers' willingness to establish living snow fences and identified farmers/landowners' constraints to adoption. Data is provided to MnDOT to assist staff in its decision making related to their Living Snow Fence Program.
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Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Expanding the Adoption on Private Lands written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous research that estimated the costs and benefits of snow-fences for MnDOT in terms of a reduction in the costs of mitigating blowing-and-drifting snow problem areas (MN/RC 2012-03) demonstrated the ability of snow-fences to significantly lower those costs for MnDOT districts. To address lack of adoption, this project designed and tested an outreach program for MnDOT offices in one district and worked with MnDOT to prepare an outreach plan to promote greater adoption and cost savings in the remaining offices in the state. The overall goal is to reduce blowing, and drifting, snow problems and associated costs in the state through an effective outreach program to MnDOT district offices and through them, to landowners. The objectives of the project were to 1) carry out a pre-promotion KAP (knowledge, attitudes, and practices) survey; 2) implement a snow-fence promotion program; 3) carry out a post-promotion KAP study; 4); based on the KAP study, design an outreach plan to promote installation of snow-fences and the associated cost savings and 5) assess the market and non-market value of different permanent and non-permanent snow-fence designs.
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Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heng-Wei Tsai
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Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Development of Methodology to Support Estimation of Snow Drifting with Application to Snow Fence Design written by Heng-Wei Tsai and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drifting and blowing snow is an extremely problematic and perilous aspect of roadway travel in four-season areas subject to intense snowfalls and winds during the winter season. Snow drift happens when an adequate amount of loose snow is available on the ground and the wind velocity magnitude and temperature surpass the critical values. In order to prevent the snow from reaching the road, which leads to decreased visibility and increased accidents, snow fences are designed and deployed on the road. Their orientation is based on the dominant wind direction. In this present study, the objective for exploration is to prove and test a set of new technologies that efficiently support the design and evaluation of snow fence performance by taking advantage of the new non-intrusive measurement technologies (image-based method). Several preliminary experimental set-ups were designed and implemented onsite to develop the measurement protocol to use for snowfall and snowdrift quantification. The current measurement protocols are outmoded, higher cost, and display measurement uncertainty. The majority of the current measurement required installing intrusive instruments, therefore, it poses a significant risk for the safety of personnel. Multiple non-intrusive measuring techniques are introduced and comprised in the present research with the discussion of each individual measurement's fundamentals physics (see Chapter 3), and the application purposes for tracking both snowfall and snowdrift velocity were developed and described in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 and 6 describe the actual measurement outcomes observed from various snow events in order to test these image-based approaches compared with the physical measurement to validate the methodology used to estimate the snow velocity and map the snow deposition.
Author : Curt Dunn
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Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Snow Management by the Use of Snow Fence Systems written by Curt Dunn and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dean Current
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Promoting the Adoption of Snow Fences Through Landowner Engagement written by Dean Current and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snow and ice problems on Minnesota roadways represent a cost of close to $100 million annually to MnDOT in addition to the associated public safety and environmental costs. MnDOT and the University of Minnesota have collaborated to estimate the costs and benefits of snow control measures as well as the constraints that landowners face to adopt snow fences to control snow and ice problems. Benefits outweigh costs, often by a wide margin, but landowners are constrained by the lack of knowledge and the real and perceived inconvenience of installing, maintaining, and farming around a snow fence. Landowners think that the payments provided by MnDOT to install and maintain a snow fence are an important incentive but want more information about the issues involved with installing and maintaining a snow fence from a trusted source, a peer, or a testimonial. The project goal is to promote greater adoption of measures to address blowing and drifting snow problems through greater landowner and public engagement. To move toward that goal, we 1) carried out and prepared a minimum of 30 case studies of landowners who have implemented snow control measures; 2) entered the case studies into a computer and smartphone-based program that can be accessed by MnDOT and landowners; 3) revised and improved a MnDOT snow fence inventory to assist MnDOT in identifying and reporting on snow fences; and 4) developed curriculum and training materials for MnDOT personnel to prepare them for promoting snow control measures.
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Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Web-based Preventative Blowing and Drifting Snow Control Calculator Decision Tool written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blowing and drifting snow on Minnesota's roadways are transportation efficiency and safety concerns. Establishing standing corn rows, living and structural snow fences or proper grading during road construction improves driver visibility and road surface conditions and has the potential to lower costs of road maintenance as well as crashes attributed to blowing and drifting snow. These snow control solutions can also provide environmental benefits including carbon sequestration and avoidance of carbon emissions of snow removal operations. In recent years, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) has paid farmers to establish snow control practices to protect identified snow problem roadways. Using public funds to pay landowners to establish land practices, which benefit the public and reduce MnDOT winter costs, needs to be justified. In 2012, our research team created a Microsoft Excel cost-benefit-payment calculator to estimate payments to farmers that included consideration of safety and snow removal cost savings to the public and the transportation agency. We worked closely with MnDOT engineers and plow operators to estimate the safety and snow removal costs. This project translated the Microsoft Excel tool to a web-based tool that can be used on laptops, smartphones and tablets. Beta testing has been done with transportation officials to improve the web tool. Outreach plans are being conducted to inform transportation agencies of this tool and the cost benefit analysis it offers.
Author : Ronald D. Tabler
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Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Controlling Blowing and Drifting Snow with Snow Fences and Road Design written by Ronald D. Tabler and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Earl L. Kuehnast
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Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (586 download)
Download or read book Climate of Minnesota written by Earl L. Kuehnast and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Living Snow Fences written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. Ll. D. Pugh
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Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Snow Drifting and the Use of Snow Fences written by H. Ll. D. Pugh and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Expanding Landowner Adoption of Snow Control Measures Through a Better Understanding of Landowner Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous research demonstrated the ability of snow fences to significantly lower both public and private costs related to the control of blowing and drifting snow. Follow-up research specifically addressed the knowledge of MnDOT staff and attitudes and practices related to the promotion and implementation of snow control measures. These efforts identified a need for a better understanding of landowners' knowledge, attitudes and practices related to snow control measures to develop more effective outreach and foster the adoption of snow control measures. We identified four regions of the state with highway corridors with snow problems. In each region, we carried out listening sessions with landowners and MnDOT personnel, and based on those sessions while applying the KAP (knowledge, attitudes and practices) methodology, we designed a landowner survey to explore landowner knowledge, attitudes and practices related to snow problems and the willingness of landowners to implement snow fences to address the problems. The survey was carried out once prior to an outreach effort and then again after the outreach effort to measure any changes in landowner knowledge, attitudes and practices resulting from the effort. We found that landowners were generally not aware of MnDOT's program to address snow problems and were able to identify constraints to adoption as well as incentives that might be required to promote adoption. We also identified the most acceptable channels for outreach to landowners as well as ways to better structure the MnDOT program to address constraints identified by landowners and provide the assistance and incentives needed to promote greater adoption.
Author : Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station
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Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (632 download)
Download or read book Climate of Minnesota - Pt.14 - Wind Climatology and Wind Power written by Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
