INSITE: IDSS Tool for Aviation Weather

INtegrated Support for Impacted air-Traffic Environments (INSITE) is a prototype web-based application developed to support the convective weather forecast process for aviation. The tool blends convective weather information with traffic information to provide guidance to forecasters of potential impacts to en-route aviation operations. Airspace constraints are computed individually for five convective weather forecast products, as well as observations, using either historical or currently planned air traffic data. Confidence information for each of the products is derived from historical performance, which is also used as part of the product weighting in a blend of the forecast products known as the Synthesis. Constraint information is updated hourly with the most recent guidance and traffic information.

In 2017, NOAA/OAR’s Global Systems Division (GSD) and NOAA/NWS’s Aviation Weather Center (2018) collaborated to establish a proof of concept of INSITE Data Services, which entailed developing capabilities to disseminate the web tool’s supporting constraint fields to AWC, and configuration of AWC’s Testbed AWIPS system to display the constraint. In 2018, through funding from NOAA/OAR’s Office of Weather and Air Quality (OWAQ), GSD and AWC continued collaborations, not only to expand AWIPS display capabilities to other NWS offices, but also to begin preparing the INSITE Data Services system for transition to the Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System (WCOSS) at NCEP Central Operations (NCO). This presentation will include an overview of the tool, demonstration of the expanded Testbed AWIPS capabilities, and a summary of current and planned transition activities.

Supplementary URL: http://esrl.noaa.gov/fiqas/tech/impact/insite/