Articles | Volume 14, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-3031-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-3031-2014
Research article
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19 Nov 2014
Research article |  | 19 Nov 2014

50-year return-period wet-snow load estimation based on weather station data for overhead line design in France

H. Ducloux and B. E. Nygaard

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Historically, as far as wet-snow loads were concerned, overhead line design was often based on experience. This article proposes a practical method to estimate the 90% confidence intervals of characteristic wet-snow loads based on meteorological data recorded at weather stations. As there is only one value of the ice-class masses proposed by ISO 12494 in each confidence interval, characteristic loads can be easily expressed in terms of ISO ice classes.
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