The 2012 Aviation Weather Tested summer experiments starts Monday morning and runs for two weeks. We are very excited to welcome everyone who is participating. We again have a large group of participants including National Weather Service forecasters, airline operators, Federal Aviation Administration personnel, researchers from industry and Universities, the Air Force Weather Agency, and international visitors.
This year we will be running two desks focused on traffic flow management and the production of an Aviation Weather Statement (AWS). This product will be generated to support the expansion of Aviation Weather Center operations into the Air Traffic Control System Command Center (ATCSCC) and will be a demonstration of operational bridging. Two desks will be tasked with producing this product, with each desk testing a different generation mechanism.
This year the AWT will be examining a wide array of products supporting the GOES-R program and evaluating how these may be used to support aviation weather forecast, warning, and planning operations. To support this evaluation, one desk will be dedicated to using proxy products generated from current observational platforms and simulated products generated from high-resolution numerical weather prediction models.
The fourth desk of the experiment will be tasked with an in-depth examination of operational and experimental high-resolution numerical forecast models in support of aviation operations. One important part of this process will be to examine how the confidence in numerical forecasts is can be conveyed in automated and human-generated forecasts. This desk will also be comparing how well objective verification metrics correspond to the subjective evaluation from a panel of forecasters, forecast users, and operators.
For more information, please visit the 2012 Spring Experiment web page. We look forward to working with those of you in attendance during the next two weeks.
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