Turbulence Impact Mitigation Workshop 3

The agenda for the Turbulence Mitigation Workshop 3 is given below.

Day 1

Advances in Detection, Forecasting, and Characterization of Aviation-scale Turbulence

8:30-8:45 Logistics/Intro: (Dr. Bob Sharman, NCAR/Matt Fronzak, MITRE/Tammy Flowe, FAA)

8:45-9:00 Dr. William Bauman, FAA, NextGen Aviation Weather Division: Welcome

9:00-9:20 Steve Abelman, American Airlines: KEYNOTE

9:20-9:40 Dr. Todd Lane, Univ. Melbourne, Australia: Convectively Induced Turbulence (CIT) Research

9:40-10:00 Katelyn Barber, Univ. North Dakota: CIT– Near Cloud Turbulence

10:20-10:40 NASA Langley and/or Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS): Satellite-based Turbulence Detection

10:40-11:00 Dr. Wiebke Deierling, NCAR: Graphical Turbulence Guidance (GTG) CIT Development

11:00-11:30 Discussion

12:30-12:50 Dr. Hye-Yeong Chun, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea: Measurement of Turbulence From High-resolution Radiosondes

12:50-13:10 Dr. Greg Meymaris/Larry Corman, NCAR: In-situ Eddy Dissipation Rate (EDR)/Turbulence for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

13:10-13:30 Dr. Domingo Muñoz-Esparza, NCAR: Low Level Turbulence (LLT)

13:30-13:50 DLR (German Aerospace Center): Turbulence Research Efforts/Wake Vortex Encounter Analysis

14:10-14:30 NOAA & United Kingdom Met Office: World Area Forecast System (WAFS) Update

14:30-14:50 Dr. Jim Doyle, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey: MWT/ Turbulence Predictability

14:50-15:10 Dr. Paul Williams, Univ. of Reading, UK: Climate Change in Aviation Impacts

15:10-15:30 Dr. Matthias Steiner, NCAR: Operational Frontiers for Turbulence Diagnosis/Forecasting

15:30-16:10 Discussion

16:10-16:30 Day 1 Summary & Wrap-Up

Day 2

Mitigating Turbulence Impacts in Aviation Operations

8:30-8:45 Welcome, Summary of Day 1, and Logistics (Tammy Flowe, Dr. Bob Sharman)

8:45-9:15 Don Eick, National Transportation Safety Board: Update on Turbulence Events in National Airspace System

9:15-9:45 Captain Tom Staigle, Delta Air Lines: A Commercial Airline Perspective/Evaluation Of Use of GTG, GTGN and EDR in Real-time Operations

9:45-10:1 Eldridge Frazier, FAA Aviation Weather Division: Remote Oceanic Meteorology Information Operational (ROMIO) Overview

10:45-11:15 Tim Rahmes, The Boeing Company; Rocky Stone and Nathan Polderman, UAL: Boeing and United Airlines Cooperative Turbulence Efforts

11:15-11:45 Rune Duke, Aircraft Operators and Pilots Association (AOPA): General Aviation Community Perspective

13:00-13:30 International Air Transport Association (IATA): Global Turbulence Database Development

13:30-14:00 Alfred Moosakhanian, FAA: Update on NWP and CSS-Wx and Turbulence Requirements

14:00-14:30 John Maffei (or representative), FAA ANG-C7: Trajectory Based Operations (TBO) and Weather Impacts

15:00-15:15 Rocky Stone, UAL: Summary of Workshop and Lead In to Open Discussion/Q&A

15:15 –16:20 Discussion Period

16:20-16:30 Concluding Remarks