Alliance Icing Research Study 1.5

Mirabel Airport, Quebec : 2002-Dec-02 to 2003-Mar-07

Project data collection is now over.

Summary TBD.

AIRS 1.5 Data Protocol.pdf

One of the core objectives of this project is to build a prototype system or combination of systems to enhance weather related decision making at airports. In development is a system called AVISA (Airport Vicinity Icing and Snow Advisor). The core objective of this project is to build a prototype system or combination of systems to enhance weather related decision making at airports. Although weather hazards exist in all seasons, AVISA’s initial focus is on winter weather. The main impairments to flight operations are accumulation of ice on wings and accumulation of snow or ice on runways, in addition to other hazards such as high winds or low visibility. AVISA attempts to bring together observations and model outputs from various sources and fuse together what information is available to the system at a particular time. AVISA's progress is on-going and it will utilize the AIRS 1.5 data sets in its testing phases. At the moment, the system is able to accept data input from a number of sources including:

1. M300 data
2. GOES satellite data
3. VPR data
4. GEM MOLTS time series data
5. RUC data
6. Radar Point Forecast data
7. Radar URPSTATS data
8. Station Obs data

For a sample AIRS1.5 flight (2003-Feb-19)
- list of the collected data fields
- snapshot of collected data