Dynamic Weather Routes: A weather avoidance system for near-term trajectory-based operations

28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences 2012, ICAS 2012

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages 4200-4217

  McNally, David ^a   Sheth, Kapil ^a   Gong, Chester ^a   Love, John ^a   Lee, Chu Han ^b   Sahlman, Scott ^b   Cheng, Jinn Hwei ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air traffic automation; Trajectory; Weather

Indexed keywords

AIR TRAFFICS; AIRLINE DISPATCHERS; AUTOMATION SYSTEMS; CONGESTION ANALYSIS; DATALINK COMMUNICATIONS; FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION; WEATHER; WEATHER-AVOIDANCE ROUTES;

AERODYNAMICS; AIR TRANSPORTATION; AIRCRAFT; AUTOMATION; TRAJECTORIES;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 84878936055     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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