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Aviation
Weather
A new Aviation
Weather Decision Support System is now operational at the
Dubai International Airport. The system combines radiometer,
wind profiler, radar and satellite data in a WRF
model to deliver automated fog, turbulence, wind shear and downburst
alerts for air traffic control.
The state-of-the-art system, developed by Weather
Decision Technologies, is the most advanced aviation weather
Nowcast and forecast system available today. The AWDSS
delivers critical, timely weather information for safe and
efficient modern airport operations.
Real-Time
Radiometer Soundings
The
German Weather Service (DWD) has been
observing temperature, humidity and liquid profiles with Radiometrics
Microwave Profilers since 1998. The DWD website posts real-time
radiometer soundings and compares them to:
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Radiosonde
temperature, vapor density and relative humidity
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Cloud
radar (click
on Lindenberg Observatory and then "Actual results of measurements"
arrow, and then "Water Vapor Measurements" arrow)
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Model
temperature, vapor density and relative humidity
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Laser
ceilometer cloud base height
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Radiosonde
and GPS integrated water vapor
NOAA
ESRL ingests
real-time international radiometer network
data into MADIS.
The radiometer data are automatically quality checked, converted
to netcdf and made available for weather forecast research
and operations. For skew-T
plots, select the Radiometers button
in the Initial data source box and then click
Java-based plot. For interactive java point
to temperature and dewpoint sounding lines in the skew-T plot
. Left-click on the surface temperature data point to display
CAPE in the list of real-time forecast indices plotted at
upper right. The network includes:
NASA
-- Glenn Research Center (GRC) delivers radiometer,
cloud radar and ceilometer data.
The GRC Icing Remote Sensing program supports NCAR
Aircraft Icing Research.
Clark
County, Nevada -- Las Vegas Ozone Transport Study (SLOTS)
delivers continuous thermodynamic
and wind soundings for state-of-the-art air quality management.
Chilbolton
Observatory -- Rutherford Laboratory
(U.K.) measures water
vapor profiles, integrated water vapor and integrated liquid
water to correct radio
astronomy observations.
Beijing
Meteorological Bureau --
delivers temperature,
humidity and liquid profiles from a radiometer
network for state-of-the-art short term weather forecasting
and weather modification for
the 2008 Olympic Games.
Radiometrics
delivers real-time
radiometer and radiosonde soundings from its facilities
in Boulder, Colorado.
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