J9 Urban Weather and Advanced Air Mobility Forecasting and Operations

Wednesday, 31 January 2024: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
317 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; and the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )
Submitters:
Jamey Jacob, Oklahoma State University, Unmanned Systems Research Institute, Stillwater, OK; Stephen A. Mango and Andrei Evbuoma, NOAA
Chair:
CoChair:
Jamey Jacob, Oklahoma State University, Unmanned Systems Research Institute, Stillwater, OK

This session will evaluate use of and requirements for unscrewed aircraft systems and urban air mobility operations within urban settings and how those systems will benefit from and provide additional benefits to urban forecasting and real-time reporting. The use of advanced air mobility systems in conjunction with data from traditional ground-based and airborne observing systems can be applied to a wide variety of aviation and aerospace research and operational areas, including enhancing urban numerical weather prediction. Themes can include the use of UAS and UAM in improving urban weather observations and the use of systems for real-time weather operations as well as the integration of assimilated data from AAM systems into urban forecasting  operations.

Papers:
8:30 AM
J9.1
Reconstructing Urban Wind Flows for Urban Air Mobility using Reduced-Order Data Assimilation
Mounir Chrit, University of North Dakota (UND), GRAND FORKS, ND; and M. Majdi

8:45 AM
J9.2
Successes of the WMO RA IV Expert Team for Aviation Services
Michael Graf, NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Martinez Guingla

9:00 AM
J9.3
The Joint Outdoor-indoor Large Eddy Simulation (JOULES) for Numerical Weather Prediction, Forecasting and Analysis in Urban Environments.
Cody Floerchinger, Aeris LLC, Louisville, CO; and P. E. Bieringer, K. Neizgoda, S. Runyon, and K. R. petty

9:15 AM
J9.4
The NASA X4+ Advanced Air Mobility program: The Inclusion of Weather Information in a Unique Live Flight Test
Eric Adams, Delmont Systems, Hurst, TX; and B. Philips, K. Namuduri, K. Gambold, S. Vatambeti, G. Dorchies, R. Kicinger, C. Harrison, E. Bird, G. Juro, F. Govers, M. Eshow, and A. Capps

9:30 AM
J9.5
Environmental Hazard Risk Assessment For Unmanned Aircraft System Operations
Mounir Chrit, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and M. Majdi, J. L. Gufford IV, M. Askelson, L. Torgerson, H. Abbas, and S. Weber

9:45 AM
J9.6
Analyzing the Impact of Assimilating UAS Data in NSSL's Experimental Warn-on-Forecast System
Jordan Lee Tweedie, MS in Meteorology, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; Cooperative Institute for Severe & High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO), Norman, OK; NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK; and N. Yussouf and Y. Wang

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