Reconstruction of aircraft trajectories from AMDAR weather reports

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 921-932

  Drüe, Clemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aircraft observations

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT MASS; AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; AIRCRAFT TRAJECTORY; COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT; COMMERCIAL SERVICES; DATA SETS; DYNAMIC PARAMETERS; DYNAMIC VARIABLES; FLIGHT PLANS; FLIGHT TRAJECTORY; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; METEOROLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; MOTION VECTORS; NAVIGATION DATA; OPERATIONAL AIRCRAFT; PITCH ANGLE;

AIR NAVIGATION; AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; AIRCRAFT CONTROL; ANGLE OF ATTACK INDICATORS; ERRORS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; METEOROLOGY; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; TRAJECTORIES;

AIRCRAFT;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; TRAJECTORY; WEATHER;

EID: 80051752023     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JTECHA1499.1     Document Type: Article

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