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Aviation safety has improved dramatically since RAL’s discovery of low-level wind shear, once responsible for hundreds of airplane fatalities. Our research engineered ways to detect and convey this hazardous phenomenon, as well as develop training materials instructing pilots when to steer clear. But our aviation safety work wasn’t finished. Further research found ways to discern and address other hazards that threaten aviation safety. Diagnosing and predicting turbulence, icing, visibility, and thunderstorms give air traffic controllers and airlines valuable planning windows, as well as the decision-making tools to avoid these hazards.















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Scott Landolt
Deputy  (temporary assignment)
Arnaud Dumont, James Pinto
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Weather Expertise



Applying scientific rigor to understand and predict atmospheric processes that generate weather hazards to aviation.

Summer & Winter Storms

Wind & Wind Shear

Turbulence

Icing

Ceiling & Visibility

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Operational Weather Sensitivities



Assessing weather sensitivities of flight operations through stakeholder engagement to collaboratively determine needs and requirements for enhanced weather guidance.

Commercial, Business, & General Aviation

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Actionable Weather Guidance



Developing weather and associated impact guidance to support operational decisions under uncertainty.

Airports, Heliports & Vertiports, etc.

En Route – Troposphere

Low Altitude – Atmospheric Boundary Layer

High Altitude – Stratosphere









Benefits Assessment



Science Serving Society requires in-depth evaluation of the weather impact guidance accuracy as well as the actions undertaken based on utilizing that guidance.

Weather Prediction Accuracy

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Our broad scientific and technical expertise builds on many enabling capabilities.

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This material is based upon work supported by the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, a major facility sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation and managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation.







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