A multiscale turbulence prediction and alert system for airports in hilly regions

Author

Rasheed, Asim ; Sorli, Karstein

Author_Institution

Appl. Math., SINTEF ICT, Trondheim, Norway

fYear

2014

fDate

1-8 March 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

The paper describes a multiscale turbulence prediction and alert system for airports in hilly regions. The system has been approved by the Norwegian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and has been fully operational since 1st July 2009. The article starts with a brief theoretical description of the system developed and implemented at 20 Norwegian airports located in hilly regions. The brief description is followed by a quantitative description of the computational cost and robustness of the model. In the following section, results from the numerical model is compared against synoptic data obtained from airports and Flight Data Recorder (FDR) of some aircraft. Finally, a strategy to communicate the predictions of the system to the Air Traffic Management in real time is explained.

Keywords

air traffic; airports; turbulence; Norwegian airports; Norwegian civil aviation authority; air traffic management; aircraft; airports; alert system; flight data recorder; hilly regions; multiscale turbulence prediction; numerical model; Airports; Artificial neural networks; Atmospheric modeling; Couplings; Data models; Load modeling; Yttrium;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5582-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2014.6836504

Filename

6836504