26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-10.7.3 (AIAA 2008-8916)

ESTIMATION OF AIR TRAFFIC DELAY USING THREE DIMENSIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION

N. Y. Chen, B. Sridar*
Univ. of California Santa Cruz, USA; *NASA, USA

Keywords: ESTIMATION OF AIR TRAFFIC DELAY, THREE DIMENSIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION

This paper describes a three dimensional weather impacted traffic index based on the intensity of convective weather and echo tops information, and applies it to air traffic delay estimation. The method uses the Corridor Integrated Weather System and there is evidence showing the method improves the air traffic delay estimates.

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