Papers
(last updated 9/2006)
Aircraft Weather Data
Accidents
Profilers
Automated meteorological reports from commercial aircraft. (Moninger, W. R., R. D. Mamrosh, and P. M. Pauley, 2003. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 84, 203-216.) A comprehensive paper describing aircraft data collection, quality control, model input, forecast applications, etc.
Aviation applications of TAMDAR aircraft data reports. (Mamrosh, R. D., T. S. Daniels, and W. R. Moninger, 2006. 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology, Atlanta, GA, Amer. Meteor. Soc.) This is an article on how TAMDAR data are useful for aviation forecasting.
The utility of TAMDAR regional aircraft sounding data in short-term convective forecasting . (Brusky, E. S., and Philip Kurimski. 2006. 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOASAOLS), Atlanta, GA, Amer. Meteor. Soc.) A good article about how to use TAMDAR to forecast convective initiation.
Meteorological uses of ACARS weather data (Weiss, Carl and Richard Mamrosh, 2002. Web-based instruction produced by NWS Headquarters and NWSFO Green Bay, WI.)
This Web-based instruction addresses the following objectives:
- Ensure that all meteorologists are aware of ACARS
- Present a brief of aircraft weather data
- Discuss data quality and availability
- Demonstrate how the FSL ACARS web page is used to display the data
- Show how ACARS will be displayed on AWIPS
- Present applications of ACARS data from meteorologists in airline and NWS forecast offices, including CWSUs and national centers
- Discuss future plans including water vapor data
Examples of the advantages of ACARS data (Martin, Greg, NWSO San Diego, CA, 2000. Western Region Technical Attachment, No. 00-07, 6 pp.)
Abstract: ACARS is the term used by the NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL) to designate automated weather reports from commercial aircraft. These data are routed by cooperating airlines to FSL, where the data are decoded and quality controlled. More generally, ACARS stands for the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, managed by Aeronautical Radio, Inc. (ARINC). ACARS is used by airlines to transmit a variety of proprietary air-to-ground communications. This paper provides sources of ACARS data, discusses its advantages and limitations as well as provides a couple of examples of using the data in a forecast situation.
"VFR flight not recommended": A study of weather-related fatal aviation accidents (Pearson, Douglas C., NOAA/National Weather Service, Atlanta Center Weather Service Unit, 6/2002. Southern Region Technical Attachment, SR SSD 2002-18, , 9 pp.)
A statistical summary of all fatal aircraft accidents that occurred in the United States (including Alaska and Hawaii) and coastal waters from 1995 to 2000 that involved general aviation and small commuter aviation aircraft. During that period, 4018 people died in aircraft accidents; of which weather-related accidents accounted for 1,380 deaths.
Angevine, W. M., A. B. White, and S. K. Avery, 1994: Boundary layer depth and entrainment zone characterization with a boundary layer profiler. Bound. Layer Meteor., 68, 375-385.
Thaler, E., 1989: Using profiler data to diagnose the atmosphere. Profiler Forum, March
issue, 6-12. (Available from NOAA Forecast Systems Lab., Boulder, CO.)
