Possibilities for the use of RWIS data in a building sector

Abstract

Though the territory of Lithuania is not large (65 300 km2) it represents different climatic conditions that are described by geographers and climatologists. The Lithuanian Hydrometeorological Service for already several hundred years has been collecting data about climatic factors of the country. The up-to-date measuring and information technologies allow implementing new systems the data of which is reliable, presented with expedition and comprising large territory. One of those systems is the Road Weather Information System (RWIS) owned by Lithuanian Road Administration under the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Lithuania. The system has been operating since 1999. Until 2011, the system had 49 measurement stations. In 2011, the same number of more stations was installed. RWIS measures air and soil temperature, air humidity, wind direction and intensity, precipitation type and amount, also records various atmospheric phenomena. This data supplements the data of Hydrometeorological Service when design-ing, building and maintaining various buildings in the different regions of Lithuania.