J3.7
National Weather Service Graphical Hazards for Aviation
Jack May, NOAA/NWS, Kansas City, MO; and S. Albersheim
For decades the primary product for domestic aviation weather advisories has been the AIRMET, a product composed of text contractions describing the hazard event over a six hour period and bounded by VOR reference points. This simple, course method of describing a hazard volume was acceptable during the teletype age, however , due to it course description, has resulted in overwarning by area and overwarning by time .
Joint Session 3, Future Delivery of Aviation Weather Services (Joint With 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology, 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, and Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges)
Tuesday, 31 January 2006, 1:45 PM-6:00 PM, A311
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