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AVIATION WEATHER CENTER FOCUSED ON THE SAFETY OF THE FLYING PUBLIC

AVIATION WEATHER CENTER FOCUSED ON THE SAFETY OF THE FLYING PUBLIC. American Meteorological Society January 14-18,2001 Albuquerque, New Mexico. AWC HISTORICAL BACKGROUND. 1939 - Weather Bureau begins an expansion of aviation services Area Forecast and 30 terminal forecasts issued from MKC

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AVIATION WEATHER CENTER FOCUSED ON THE SAFETY OF THE FLYING PUBLIC

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  1. AVIATION WEATHER CENTER FOCUSED ON THE SAFETY OF THE FLYING PUBLIC American Meteorological Society January 14-18,2001 Albuquerque, New Mexico

  2. AWC HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 1939 - Weather Bureau begins an expansion of aviation services Area Forecast and 30 terminal forecasts issued from MKC 1944 - Flight Advisory Weather Service (FAWS) established 1978 - Convective SIGMET unit established within NSSFC 1982 - National Aviation Weather Advisory Unit (NAWAU) 1995 - Aviation Weather Center (AWC) established

  3. MISSION STATEMENT for the Aviation Weather Center to apply the NWS mission... Protection of Lifeand Property ...to the National Airspace System (NAS) SAFETY- Support the mission of the FAA to safely operate the NAS in an environment of weather hazards INTERNATIONAL- Implement the agreements of the ICAO to COMMITMENTSsupport international aviation ECONOMIC -Support the aviation industry with ADVANTAGEmeteorological information to economically utilize international airspace

  4. Observations Surface Upper Air PIREPS Numerical Forecasts – NCEP/EMC & NCO Communications Display National Focus International Scale Product Generation CRITICAL ELEMENTS FOR AVIATION WEATHER FORECASTING

  5. Alphanumeric messages - turbulence, icing, convection, ceiling/visibility:SIGMETs, Convective SIGMETs, AIRMETs, Area Forecasts Graphic depiction of SIGWX - fronts, jets, convection, freezing levels, etc: Global High Level SIGWX forecasts, Low Level SIGWX forecasts OPERATIONS BRANCH Vision: Transition to future enroute forecasting activities and products. Current formats may be sustained until customers modernize Current Forecaster Role Future Forecaster Role Near Term • Graphic Products • Enhanced Global SIGWX Long Term • Gridded Products • Gridded TAF Guidance Major Efforts • Training of 36 forecasters in advanced systems, forecast generation techniques and new science • Transition to Team Forecast Process

  6. The Forecast Area at AWC Global Graphics 7X24 Surveillance Area Forecasts CCFP (Summer 98, 99, 2000)

  7. DOMESTIC PROGRAM

  8. 3 Forecasters issue Area Forecasts, AIRMETs, SIGMETs

  9. Area Forecast AIRMETs/SIGMETs: icing, turbulence, IFR, volcanic ash Convective SIGMETs - thunderstorms (1hr.) New: CCFP - thunderstorms outlook (2/4/6 hrs) Low Level SIGWX Product List Domestic (CONUS)

  10. Traditional Operational Products (CONUS) - text and polygons Convective SIGMETS valid at 1600UTC 28 June

  11. COLLABORATIVE CONVECTIVE FORECAST PRODUCT

  12. EXAMPLE OF A LOW LEVEL SIGNIFICANT WX CHART

  13. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMAWC IS ONE OF TWO WORLD AREA FORECAST CENTERS

  14. International Responsibilities Global Graphics High Level SigWx Tropical Desk IFFDP International Products

  15. Gulf of Mexico Area Forecast for Helicopters Caribbean Area Forecast for General Aviation International SIGMETs for Seven Oceanic Areas High Level Significant Weather Charts for Seven ICAO areas Product List International

  16. MWO KKCI MWO KKCI FACA Responsibility Outlined in Red MWO KKCI MWO KKCI MWO KKCI

  17. MWO KKCI MWO KKCI

  18. LOW LEVEL GULF OPERATIONS • 4,000 OPERATING PLATFORMS • 30,000 PERSONNEL LIVING ON THE PLATFORMS • 600 HELICOPTERS • 1.7 MILLION FLIGHTS IN 1997 • 60,000 SQUARE MILES OF OPERATIONS • $250K PER HOUR IN CREW COST

  19. OFAGX

  20. EXAMPLE OF HIGH LEVEL SIGNIFICANT WX CHART

  21. THE PATH TO THE CUSTOMERIS COMPLICATED

  22. NWS FAA Distributors TAFs Model Output Alpha- Numeric Warnings Forecasts ARTCCs CWSUs USERS:Military, General Aviation, Business, Commercial Pilots WFOs Private Sector Vendors & Airlines NOAAPORT Observations NCEP METARs Soundings PIREPS ACARS Satellite Radar Airline Dispatchers FSSs AWC Alaska SPC Guam TPC Hawaii Voice Voice ACARS Voice Briefing NADIN ATCSCC Internet Auto-FAX Voice TRACON Commercial Airline Pilots

  23. Product Distribution ADDS by INTERNET IMPROVING AND MERGING

  24. AVIATION SUPPORT BRANCHEMBEDDED AVIATION TEST BED

  25. The Concept of an Aviation Testbed AWC AAWU

  26. Products model output NCEP observations Research • FSL • NCAR • Universities • Lincoln Labs • FAA Tech Center • Clients • FAA Ops. • Air Transportation • Regional • Business • General Aviation User Feedback Technology Transfer Operations 21 CWSU’s 121 WFO’s Cooperative Roles of Operations and Research

  27. The AWC Testbed is the ANVIL on which convective, turbulence, icing, ceiling visibility products are evaluated and prepared for operational applications

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