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Links from Aviation Hazards Session: 

NASA:  http://oea.larc.nasa.gov/trailblazer/SP-4216/ - Taming the Microburst Windshear

Aviation Weather Center:  http://aviationweather.noaa.gov/

Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDS):  http://adds.aviationweather.gov/

Center Weather Service Unit (Products):  http://aviationweather.gov/products/cwsu/

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)- Aviation:  http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/aviation.htm

National Weather Service Rapid City, SD:  http://www.crh.noaa.gov/unr/

AWC ADDS Turbulence Products:  http://adds.aviationweather.gov/turbulence/

Graphical Turbulence Guidance (GTG):  http://adds.aviationweather.gov/turbulence/turb_nav.php

AIRMETs/SIGMETs:  http://adds.aviationweather.gov/airmets/

PIREPs:  http://adds.aviationweather.gov/pireps/ and http://adds.aviationweather.gov/pireps/java/

Turbulence Intensity:  http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/opdb/aviation/turb/tifcsts.html

Elrod Index:  http://aviationweather.gov/exp/ellrod/ruc/

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) – Air Safety Foundation:  http://www.aopa.org/

AWC Inflight Icing Information:  http://aircrafticing.grc.nasa.gov/resources/related.html

Seattle CWSU Icing Presentation:  http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/zse/PacNW_Icing_files/frame.htm

AWC ADDS Icing Products:  http://adds.aviationweather.gov/icing/

Experimental GOES Aircraft Icing Imagery:  http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/opdb/aviation/loops/icg/icgconus_loopw.html

GOES Low Cloud Base Product:  http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/opdb/aviation/CONUSlcb.html

GOES Fog Product:  http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/opdb/aviation/CONUSfog.html

GOES Fog Depth Estimate Product:  http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/opdb/aviation/fog/ltstfog/LTSTFGDPNW.GIF

Nighttime Fog and Low Cloud Images, from GOES and NOAA Polar Satellites:  http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/opdb/aviation/fog.html#current

Satellite Climatology Applications:  http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/research/satellite_climatologies/

Aviation Station Climatologies:  http://www.srh.noaa.gov/abq/avclimate/

Alaskan Volcano Observatory:  http://www.avo.alaska.edu/

Cascades Volcano Observatory:  http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/home.html

Alaska Volcanic Ash Advisory Center:  http://vaac.arh.noaa.gov/

United States Avian Hazard Advisory System:  http://www.usahas.com/

The Aviation Test Bed:  http://aviationweather.noaa.gov/testbed/ or http://aviationweather.gov/testbed/

 Experimental Flight Path Tool:  http://weather.aero/jade/

National Ceiling and Visibility Analysis (NCVA) product:  http://weather.aero/metars/

Graphical-AIRMET Product:  http://aviationweather.gov/products/gairmet/ or http://aviationweather.gov/products/gairmet/info.php

(Experimental) NCEP SREF Aviation Products:  http://wwwt.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/SREF_avia/FCST/AVN/web_site/visb/cnv_com_09z_prb1.htm

(Experimental) – CWSU/NWS “Mobile Aviation Product:  http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/zoa/MOBILE/ZOA2.htm

(Experimental) The AWC’s Product Overlay Display:  http://aviationweather.gov/exp/product_overlay/ or http://aviationweather.gov/exp/product_overlay/prod-olay-2img.html

(Experimental) Ellrod Index:  http://aviationweather.gov/exp/ellrod/nam/ or http://aviationweather.gov/exp/ellrod/info.php?mdl=NAM or http://aviationweather.gov/exp/ellrod/ruc/

(Experimental) AWC/International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Global Grids Display:  http://aviationweather.gov/testbed/globalgrids/

Space Weather Links:  http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/index.html or http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/aviation/aviation_user_guide.html or http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/aviation/index.html or  http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/aviation/aviation_PDD.pdf

National Severe Storms Laboratory, Dual Polar Radar:  http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~schuur/dualpol/

GOES R Cost Benefit Analysis:  http://www.centrec.com/resources/reports/GOES%20Economic%20Value%20Report.pdf

 

Training Aid/Sites:

Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA):  http://www.cira.colostate.edu/

Virtual Institute for Satellite Integrated Training (VISIT)  Training Sessions:  http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/visit/ts.html

VISIT Contact: visit-team@comet.ucar.edu

VISIT Blog: http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/visit/blog/

Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS):  http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/

CIMSS Blog:  http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/

MetEd (COMET) – Aviation Including DLAC:  http://www.meted.ucar.edu/topics_aviation.php

Pilot’s Guide to In-flight Icing:  http://aircrafticing.grc.nasa.gov/courses.html

Microscale meteorology and atmospheric hazards:  http://www.auf.asn.au/groundschool/umodule21.html

Satellite Based Nowcasting and Aviation Application Program:  http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/snaap/

Aviation Simulation Weather Tutorial:  http://www.avsim.com/avwx/avsim_wxus_icing.html

Aeronautical Meteorology Programme:  http://www.wmo.ch/pages/prog/amp/aemp/index_en.html

NAV Canada (Check out the GREAT publications on forecasting!):  http://www.navcanada.ca/NavCanada.asp?Language=en&Content=ContentDefinitionFiles\Publications\LAK\default.xml

Quantico METOC Division:  https://www.metocwx.quantico.usmc.mil/weather_for_aviators/pilot_trng.htm

 

More E-Links to Great Aviation/Weather Sites:

AWC – The Front: 

Alaska Aviation Weather Unit Volcanic Ash Advisory Center:  

To all VAACs:  

International Civil Aviation Organization:  

EAA - The Leader in Recreational Aviation - Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Colorado Aviation Historical Society

Welcome to Colorado Pilots Association CDOT - Aeronautics Division - Main Flightprep.com

NOAA Marine and Aviation Operations

ASAP - Advanced Satellite Aviation Weather Products

28 December 1997 -- Severe Turbulence Over the West Pacific

NCAR Teams with United Airlines to Pinpoint Turbulence in Clouds; Research Can Help Reduce Delays, Injuries, Costs - News Release

RAL Annual Report: 2007 NTDA

Atmospheric Turbulence detection

Lightning and aviation

What happens when lightning strikes an airplane?: Scientific American

CAeM Pilot Project on Aviation-weather Disaster Risk Reduction

FAA Advisory Circulars

February 1, 2008 Low Level Wind Shear Event

NOAA Magazine Online (Story 86)

Ceiling and Visibility Articles

NWS Dodge City, KS Dust Storm

Satellite Fog and Low Cloud Images (NOAA/NESDIS)

Cloud Products - Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution

International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project

AvnWx.com Aviation Weather -- About Forecast Winds and Temps Aloft

AVSIM Aviation Simulation Weather: Jet Stream

Lightning NASA: Concept to Reality

Thunderstorm Hazards

Volcanic Ash Hazards to Airliners

Safer air travel - Turbulence

Operational Forecasting of Gravity Waves

Accident statistics

AOPA Online: The weather accident picture

NASDAC Review of NTSB Weather-Related Accidents

NCAR RAL Aviation | Oceanic Convection Diagnosis and Nowcasting

AWC - Aviation Weather Community Forum

National Weather Service - Denver Center Weather Service Unit

Chicago Area Aviation Climatology

DOWNSLOPE WINDSTORM CASE STUDY - UTAH

11th Conference Aviation, Range and Aerospace  

Operational Products Development Branch (NOAA/NESDIS)

U.S. Air Quality Aviation Issues

NTSB - Flight 1549 Remarks by Robert L. Sumwalt

Four Winds Saving the CWSU

National Weather Association – Aviation Weather Committee

Avionics Magazine – Avoiding Trouble Ahead (Use of the NTDA)

MODIS Rapid Response System