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| 14 Dec 2023
RoadSurf 1.1: open-source road weather model library
Abstract. Icy and snowy road conditions cause problems in many countries where temperature often drops below zero degrees. Preventive actions are necessary to keep roads ice-free and to optimize maintenance operations. Accurate road surface temperature and road condition forecasts are an essential help for road maintenance crews to plan their actions. Finnish Meteorological institute (FMI) has produced road weather forecasts for many years with the house-made road weather model RoadSurf to aid local road authorities. Recently, FMI published an open-source road weather model library that consists of RoadSurf functions. The open publication provides an opportunity for many institutes and companies to use the library in road weather forecasting. The evaluation of the library shows that it is well suited for forecasting road surface temperature.
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RC1: 'Comment on gmd-2023-175', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Feb 2024
This is a nice paper, describing in detail the RoadSurf model, making it a valuable complement to the newly released, freely available source code for the model.
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AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Virve Karsisto, 06 Feb 2024
Thank you for your valuable comments and grammar corrections. I appreciate your thorough reading of the manuscript. Attached are point by point replies to the comments. The pointed out spelling/grammar errors will be corrected in the revised manuscript.
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AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Virve Karsisto, 06 Feb 2024
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RC2: 'Comment on gmd-2023-175', Anonymous Referee #2, 03 Feb 2024
The manuscript documents the open-source RoadSurf model which is a beneficial community resource. The paper's greatest contribution is the inclusion of the open source repositories.
The reviewer questions if there are any plans to transition the model from Fortran to Python in the future? If so, this might be worthwhile to mention future development and release plans.
The authors are encouraged to do a relatively minor grammatical check throughout the entire manuscript.
Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2023-175-RC2 -
AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Virve Karsisto, 06 Feb 2024
Thank you for your comments. A preliminary Python version of RoadSurf already exists, but this version is currently in an experimental phase and is subject to further development before publication. Information about it will be added to the conclusion chapter of the revised manuscript.
The manuscript will go through Copernicus’s English language copy editing service before publication, which will ensure that the manuscript adheres to a high standard of grammar.
Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2023-175-AC2
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AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Virve Karsisto, 06 Feb 2024
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RC3: 'Comment on gmd-2023-175', Anonymous Referee #3, 12 Feb 2024
General comments
The manuscript entitled “RoadSurf 1.1: open-source road weather model library” is a good and important contribution to scientific modelling community as well as to potential end-users from road authorities/directorates and public in many countries. Providing open public access to repository (a good way to go) is crucial and important step for enlarging community of users and developers of the RoadSurf road weather model (RWM). The chosen approach and applied methods are valid as well as results presented and discussed in appropriate and balanced way in the manuscript. The given description (incl. repository) of the RoadSurf 1.1 RWM library is sufficient to reproducibility and traceability of results.
With respect to presentation quality, it would be useful to add an extra paragraph at end of Section 1 to explain content/structure of the manuscript. The section “Conclusions” needs to be re-written and, at least, included sumup paragraphs about RoadSurf Library description on included components and its content; results of evaluation containing not only “words”, but also obtained “numbers” for selected studied period; applicability; plans (if any) for further development/improvement of RoadSurf Library. The illustrations should have a self-explanatory written text in captions to Figures and Tables (see attached file with detailed comments/remarks/suggestions/etc). All Tables in Annex should include additional column containing units for listed variables (Tables 1-3, 5-6) and physical constants (Table 4), or may be? include at the beginning of the manuscript as “Nomenclature”. Frequently, the word “temperature” is used through the text of the manuscript, but it has different “attribution” as: air temperature, road surface temperature, soil temperature, dew point temperature, etc. – these should re- checked and accurately written to avoid a confusion or misleading. It seems that accurate spell-checking of the manuscript text is needed (before submission) to exclude accident mistyping.
Specific comments and Technical corrections are included in the attached file.
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AC3: 'Reply on RC3', Virve Karsisto, 14 Feb 2024
Thank you for your valuable feedback on the manuscript. I appreciate your thorough review and have taken your comments into consideration in the revised version of the manuscript. Here are answers to the general comments. Point by point replies to the specific comments can be found in the attached file.
-Paragraph explaining manuscript structure was added
- A concise summary of the most crucial features of the RoadSurf Library was added. This should provide readers with a clear understanding of its capabilities.
- I believe that listing all components in the conclusions section might be excessive. Instead, main features were highlighted.
-In the context of the conclusions, I have opted for a qualitative approach than writing the precise numbers. The focus is on conveying the overall impact and applicability of the library rather than presenting specific numerical values.
-Applicability: Explanation about library’s usage was added to the conclusions
-A mention about plans to convert the library to Python was added to the conclusions.
-Figures, Tables and captions were improved based on the specific comments
-Units will be added to the appendix tables and to “where” sections of the manuscript
-Clarifications to the usage of “temperature” term were done where appropriate
-The manuscript will go through Copernicus’s English language copy editing service before publication, which will ensure that the manuscript adheres to a high standard of grammar.
Once again, thank you for your thoughtful feedback. I hope these revisions enhance the clarity of the manuscript.
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AC3: 'Reply on RC3', Virve Karsisto, 14 Feb 2024
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