Session 3 Breaking the Mold: Leveraging New Data, Capabilities, and Practices in Support of Evolving Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Operations

Monday, 8 January 2018: 2:00 PM-4:15 PM
Room 16AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)
Host: Sixth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium
Cochairs:
Cecilia Miner, NOAA/NWS, Aviation & Space Weather Services Branch, Silver Spring, MD and Bruce Telfeyan, 557 Weather Wing, Offutt AFB, NE

Papers:
2:00 PM
3.1A
Accuracy of New York Automated Wind Compression Tool
Victor Klimenko, AvMet Applications, Reston, VA; and M. Klopfenstein
2:15 PM
3.2
Evaluating High-Resolution Model Data for Aviation Impacts due to Cloud and Visibility for the San Francisco International Airport
Steven A. Lack, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO; and A. Cross, D. Bentley, C. S. Bartholomew, P. Buchanan, I. A. Boutle, S. Avey, and S. Alvidrez
2:30 PM
3.3
Advanced Weather Datasets for UAV Operations
Anuj Agrawal, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD

2:45 PM
3.4A
Assessment of Dual-Polarized Radar Coverage in the Terminal Airspaces of Commercial Airports
Jacqueline Waters, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and H. D. Reeves and A. Keys
3:00 PM
3.5
Operational Unmanned Mission Execution Forecasts at Dugway Proving Ground
John Pace, Dugway Proving Ground, Dugway, UT; and E. N. Vernon
3:15 PM
3.6
Quantifying the Relationship between Storm Size and Forecast Uncertainty for Enhanced Blending
James O. Pinto, NCAR/Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and M. Steiner, K. Stone, and D. Albo
3:30 PM
3.7
Integrating GOES-16 Satellite into Convective Porosity Determination at CWSU Houston
Roland Nunez, NWS/Center Weather Service Unit, Houston, TX; and E. Zappe
3:45 PM
3.8
Optimizing Prediction of Lightning Initiation by Identifying Towers of Supercooled Water with Dual-Polarization Radar
Omar A. Nava, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH; and W. P. Roeder
4:00 PM
3.9A
Gap-Filling Radar Observations of a Snow Squall at San Luis Valley Regional Airport
Andrew A. Rosenow, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. W. Howard and J. Meitín
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