Session 4 Scaling Down the Weather to Support Urban Air Mobility

Tuesday, 14 January 2020: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Host: 20th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
Chair:
Kevin Johnston, FAA, ANG-C64, Washington, DC
CoChair:
Anders Jensen, NCAR, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO

Papers:
8:30 AM
4.1
Weather Challenges for Emerging Modes of Aerial Transportation
Matthias Steiner, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Boehnert, W. Deierling, A. Dumont, J. A. Grim, K. Ikeda, D. Jacobsen, T. Keller, C. Kessinger, G. Meymaris, D. Munoz Esparza, J. M. Pearson, J. O. Pinto, A. Rugg, H. Shin, and K. Stone

8:45 AM
4.2
Evolving the Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) Tool
Stephanie Avey, NWS/NCEP/AWC, Kansas City, MO; and A. Cross and D. Vietor

9:00 AM
4.3
Flying Safe in Dallas Fort Worth - Meeting the Weather Alerting Needs of Drone and Air Taxi Operators
Apoorva Bajaj, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA; and B. Philips, E. Lyons, D. Westbrook, and E. Huffman

9:15 AM
4.4
Building Resolving Urban Microscale Weather for UAS/UAM Applications
Paul Bieringer, Aeris, Louisville, CO; and A. Annunzio, G. Bieberbach Jr., and H. J. J. Jonker

9:30 AM
4.5
Building-Resolving LES within the GPU-Accelerated FastEddy Model: Toward Street-Scale Weather Forecasting
Domingo Munoz-Esparza, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Sauer, H. Shin, R. D. Sharman, B. Kosovic, and M. Steiner

9:45 AM
4.6
Observations of the Microscale Urban Wind field impacting UAV's using Scanning Doppler LIDAR
Ludovic Thobois, Leosphere, saclay, France; Leosphere, saclay, France; and D. Sathiyanarayanan and R. Parmentier

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