Session 3 Weather Needs for Small UASs and the Potential for Improving Their Own Guidance

Monday, 13 January 2020: 2:00 PM-4:00 PM
206A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 20th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
Cochairs:
Paul E. Bieringer, Aeris, Louisville, CO and Colleen Reiche, Booz Allen Hamilton, Washington, DC

The commercial application of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), which have much different weather sensitivities than manned aircraft, has shown exponential growth over the past 5 years leading to the need for new weather products tailored to meet their emerging needs. At the same time, plans for developing Unmanned Urban Mobility (UAM) has brought new challenges for the analysis and prediction of aviation weather in urban landscapes. Topics to be covered in this session include assessment of the weather sensitivities of these emerging modes of transportation (e.g., UAS, UAM), development and evaluation of finescale prediction systems to support unmanned operations, urban micrometeorology and impacts translation modeling which supports the integration of finescale weather information into UAS/UAM Traffic Management (UTM).

Papers:
2:00 PM
3.1
Preliminary Gap Analysis and Research Roadmap for Unmanned Aircraft Weather Decision Support
David Clark, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and J. E. Evans, T. Bonin, and J. Kuchar

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2:45 PM
3.4
Ice Accretion Prediction for Small Unmanned Aircraft Conditions
Alyssa Avery, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK; and J. Jacob
3:00 PM
3.5
What If Every Aeronautical Vehicle Operating in Our Airspace Were to Report Weather Conditions?
Michael Robinson, The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA; and M. Fronzak, M. Steiner, and T. Becher
3:15 PM
3.6
Evaluation of Real-Time Finescale UAS Forecast Guidance on Winds and Turbulence Obtained Using WRF LES over a Sub-Alpine Desert Valley
James Pinto, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Jensen, P. Jimenez, J. Lundquist, S. Bailey, J. Jacob, A. Houston, S. Waugh, P. Chilson, G. deBoer, and K. Glasheen
3:30 PM
3.7
Quantifying the Impact of UAS-Sensed Data on High-Resolution, Limited-Area WRF Forecasts Using NCAR’s Data Assimilation Research Testbed (DART)
Anders A. Jensen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. O. Pinto, S. Bailey, S. Smith, P. B. Chilson, G. S. Romine, R. A. Sobash, G. de Boer, K. Glasheen, S. Waugh, A. L. Houston, and P. Jimenez
3:45 PM
3.8
Utilizing UASs to Assist in Weather Hazard Detection for Urban Air Mobility and Unmanned Traffic Management
Jamey Jacob, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK; and R. Allamraju, T. Mitchell, and V. Natalie
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