Aviation Meteorology: Panel Report

Abstract

The Fujita and McCarthy review (Chapter 31a, hereafter referred to as F & M) gives an excellent historical discussion of radar applications to aviation meteorology, as well as a thorough description of the downburst as an aviation hazard. Because these areas are covered adequately in F & M, this report will concentrate on future directions that operational aviation meteorology should take.

Wilson served as panel chairman. Other panel members were L. Cartledge (MITRE Corp., McLean, Virginia), C. Chandler (Delta Airlines, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia), J. Clark (Princeton, New Jersey), A. Hansen (FAA, Edgewater, Maryland), P. Harney (Utica, New York), J. Lee (NSSL), J. McCarthy (NCAR), M. Merritt (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), K. Michimoto (The National Defense Academy, Kanagawa, Japan), C. Mueller (NCAR), D. Peed (MITRE Corp., McLean, Virginia), V. Peterson (Tycho Technology, Boulder, Colorado), R. Potts (NCAR), R. Rinehart (University of North Dakota), R. Wakimoto (University of California, Los Angeles), K. Wilk (NSSL), and J. Zak (STX, Hampton, Virginia).

The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.