09 - Air Transport System Efficiency
COMPARING CONVECTIVE WEATHER IMPACTS ON AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS IN UNITED STATES, CANADA & EUROPE
G. Enea¹, T. Reynolds¹, J. Venuti¹, T. Polishchuk², V. Polishchuk², A. Lemetti², A. Lau³, J. Solzer³, T. Bölle³; ¹MIT Lincoln Laboratory, United States ;²Linköping University, Sweden ;³German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Best practices and models to evaluate the impact of convective weather on air traffic in Canada, Europe and United States are compared in this paper. The results are used to highlights differences in weather types and mitigations to present lesson learned to benefit the international community.