Publications
Improving convective weather operations in highly congested airspace with the Corridor Integrated Weather System (CIWS)
Summary
Summary
Reducing thunderstorm-related air traffic delays in congested airspace has become a major objective of the FAA, especially given the recent growth in convective delays. In 2000 and 2001, the key new initiative for reducing these convective weather delays was "strategic" traffic flow management (TFM). Users were given 2-, 4-, and...
Quantifying delay reduction benefits for aviation convective weather decision support systems
Summary
Summary
In this paper, we summarize contemporary approaches to quantifying convective weather delay reduction benefits. We outline a program to develop a significantly improved capability that can be used to assess benefits of specific systems. This program may potentially accomplish weather impact normalization for studies of National Airspace System (NAS) performance...
Corridor integrated weather system operation benefits 2002-2003 : initial estimates of convective weather delay reduction : executive summary
Summary
Summary
The Corridor Integrated Weather System (CIWS) seeks to improve safety and reduce delay by providing accurate, automated, rapidly updated information on storm locations and echo tops along with two-hour high-resolution animated growth and decay convective storm forecasts. An operational benefits assessment was conducted using on-site observations of CIWS usage at...
Corridor Integrated Weather System operation benefits 2002-2003 : initial estimates of convective weather delay reduction
Summary
Summary
The Corridor Integrated Weather System (CIWS) seeks to improve safety and reduce delay by providing accurate, automated, rapidly updated information on storm locations and echo tops along with two-hour high-resolution animated growth and decay convective storm forecasts. An operational benefits assessment was conducted using on-site observations of CIWS usage at...
Reducing severe weather delays in congested airspace with weather decision support for tactical air traffic management
Summary
Summary
Reducing congested airspace delays due to thunderstorms has become a major objective of the FAA due to the recent growth in convective delays. In 2000 and 2001 the key new initiative for reducing these convective weather delays was "strategic" traffic flow management (TFM) at time scales between 2 and 6...
En route weather depiction benefits of the NEXRAD vertically integrated liquid water product utilized by the Corridor Integrated Weather System
Summary
Summary
It is demonstrated in this paper that weather depictions in an operational environment based upon VIL provide more meaningful information for en route traffic routing than a BREF product. VIL precipitation proves advantageous in limiting contamination from Anomalous Propagation (AP) ground clutter, biological targets (e.g., birds and insects), and radar...