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Alliance Icing Research Study 1999-2000

The Alliance Icing Research Study (AIRS) is a collaborative effort involving several Canadian and U.S. research agencies and Universities. The main objectives of the project, in order of priority, are:
  1. To improve our ability to remotely sense aircraft icing regions using satellite, aircraft or ground based systems.
  2. To obtain additional data to characterise the icing environment which might be used in a revision of “Appendix C”, the criteria used to certify aircraft for icing conditions.
  3. To improve our ability to forecast icing conditions and to understand how these conditions develop.
  4. To obtain measurements of aircraft performance within icing conditions and shapes of ice accretion that might be used in verification of icing model codes or in wind tunnel studies that simulate icing conditions.
The AIRS 1999-2000 field project was conducted between November 29, 1999 and February 18, 2000. The research aircraft involved were based out of Ottawa, with an extensive array of remote sensing instrumentation based at Mirabel. The data set collected makes a unique and important contribution to existing aircraft icing research.

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AIRS I participating agencies

  1. Meteorological Service of Canada
  2. Institute for Aerospace Research of NRC
  3. NASA-Glenn
  4. National Center for Atmospheric Research
  5. Federal Aviation Administration
  6. Transport Canada
  7. Canadian National Search and Rescue Secretariat
  8. SPEC
  9. CRREL
  10. McGill University
  11. Defence Research Establishment Valcartier
  12. McMaster University
  13. Carleton University
  14. Central Aerological Observatory
  15. University of Mass
  16. Desert Research Institute
  17. Trent University
  18. University of Warsaw
  19. Canadian Space Agency