Nowcasting thunderstorm hazards for flight operations: The CB wims approach in flysafe

ICAS Secretariat - 26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences 2008, ICAS 2008

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 2446-2455

  Tafferner, A ^a   Forster, C ^a   Senesi S ^b   Guillou, Y ^b   Tabary, P ^b   Laroche, P ^c   Delannoy, A ^c   Lunnon, B ^d   Turp, D ^d   Hauf, T ^e   Markovic, D ^d  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^c ONERA   (France)

^d UKMet Office   (Germany)

^e LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

FLYSAFE; Thunderstorm; Weather information for pilots; Wowcasting

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT OPERATION; FLYSAFE; INTEGRATED PROJECT; NOWCASTING; TERMINAL MANOEUVRING AREAS; WEATHER INFORMATION; WEATHER INFORMATION MANAGEMENTS; WOWCASTING;

AERODYNAMICS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

THUNDERSTORMS;

EID: 84878507892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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