COMET® Distance Learning Aviation Courses

• Aircraft Data Website
• BUFKIT
• CCTAF (Program available to noaa.gov users)
• MakeTAF (Program available to noaa.gov users)
• UPS fog forecast program
  • FogPlot
  • Fog threat calculator
  • UPS Calculation Script
  • Perl script for parsing obs and calculating no. of minutes in each hour a category was observed (from D. Cobb)
• PIREPS/TAF codes
• Terrain and mapping tools

General

• Eastern Region Aviation Best Practices (requires Adobe Acrobat®)
• Canadian Local Area Weather Manuals (Good examples of how to pull together local knowledge for both pilots and forecasters. Requires Adobe Acrobat®)

Fog Forecasting:

• Forecast decision tree from DLAC 1
• Gulf Region fog techniques
• Central Region fog techniques
• Post-frontal stratus forecasting over Upper Midwest
• Upper Midwest PLOE technique
• Western Region/West Coast fog techniques
• TLH decision trees
• Tallahassee climatology
• Isentropic analysis technique
• Post-event reviews

New! Convective Weather:

• Convective TAF Toolbox table
• Forecasting for a Point table
• Experimental GOES Microburst Products (Wind Index, Dry Microburst Index, Microburst Day Potential Index, and Wet Microburst Severity Index)

• Integrated approaches
  • RAP ceiling and visibility forecast algorithm
  • SFO marine stratus forecast guidance project
  • Short-term ceiling and visibility forecast systems
• Experimental satellite products
• Short-Range Ensemble Forecasting (SREF) forecasts (Look under "Specific Applications")

See also listings in Field Forecast Techniques (above)

• Compendium of ceiling and visibility articles for operational meteorology (AWC)
• Aircraft Weather Data
• Accidents
• Profiler data
• Analysis of rapidly developing fog at the Kennedy Space Center

• Comparison of advection fog and radiation fog (3 tables from DLAC 1: Characteristics, processes, low-level factors)
• Discussion about PROB30 and VC
• Airport information sources and an example of why they're important
• Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDS)
• Glossary of Air Traffic Management Terms and Acronyms
• One-stop shopping for airport-specific criteria for the hubs (from the Weather Impacts Playbooks—NOAA users only)

• General:
  • Terminal aerodrome training from NWSTC
  • The Impact of Weather on Air Traffic Management
  • Short Course on Meteorological Applications of Aircraft Weather Data
  • AvnFPs Climate tools training
• Fog:
  • Fog detection and analysis with satellite data (Gary Elrod's VisitView session)
  • Dynamically Forced Fog (part of the COMET Mesoscale Primer series)
  • Forecasting Radiation Fog
• Icing:(part of the COMET Mesoscale Primer series)
  • Forecasting Aviation Icing: Icing Type and Severity
  • Icing Assessment Using Observations and Pilot Reports
  • Icing Assessment Using Soundings and Wind Profiles