Aviation Applications Program
Providing advanced weather technologies to support aviation and space operations

Aviation Applications Program
Providing advanced weather technologies to support aviation and space operations
Aviation weather provided the starting point for RAL's research work. Within the aviation application area, our current research emphases are: in–flight icing; snowfall and freezing precipitation; convective storm nowcasting and forecasting; atmospheric turbulence; numerical weather prediction; remote sensing; data assimilation; precipitation physics; ceiling and visibility; oceanic weather; verification methods; and advanced dissemination technology to users on the ground and in the air. Development of useful aviation applications requires a strong connection between our work and the needs of aviators. End–user requirements are considered at each step along the development path. Our work tends to be heavily oriented toward real–time operational systems and this focus leads to an emphasis on algorithm development, specialized graphical displays, systems engineering, operational demonstrations, and the associated scientific validations and user–oriented evaluations.
Focus Areas of Research
Benefits and Impacts
Read how we have met meteorological challenges with creative, practical solutions, and measurable benefits.
PROJECTS
- Advanced Satellite Aviation Weather Products (ASAP) Program
- Aircraft Ground Deicing
- Alaska Ceiling and Visibility Analysis (CVA-AK) Product
- Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDS)
- Brunei LLWAS Acquisition
- Common Support Services Weather (CSS-Wx)
- Consolidated Storm Prediction for Aviation
- Doppler Radar-based Wind Shear Detection
- Dual Polarization
- Ensemble Prediction of Oceanic Convective Hazards (EPOCH)
- Ensemble Weather
- Global Weather Hazards
- Joint Airport Weather Studies Project (JAWS)
- Juneau Airport Wind System (JAWS)
- Lightning Impacts on Aviation
- Low Level Wind Shear Alert System (LLWAS)
- Marshall Field Site
- Mobile Meteorology (MobileMet)
- NCAR Turbulence Detection Algorithm (NTDA)
- Oceanic Convection Diagnosis and Nowcasting
- Probabilistic Storm Prediction for Aviation
- Probabilistic Weather Integration With Air Traffic Management
- Radar Icing Algorithm (RadIA)
- Realtime Object Based Model Evaluation
- Turbulence Characterization
- UAS Turbulence
- Weather Technology in the Cockpit