relates the impact on air traffic airport operations using extended models to when airport
arrival rates would increase due to C/V changes. Another desk focused SFO and the
marine layer that impacts the arrivals into SFO; the desk was using a numb er of different
models including one from UK MET in England. The last desk was looking at how to
extend the current TCF into the next day planning cycle and extend from eight hours to
24 hours and beyond. The goal was to see if the current TCF process coul d be applied
the extended forecast. Results of the summer experiment will be available in September.
Common Support Services – Weather (CSS - WX)/ NEXTGEN Weather Processor
(NWP)
The CSS - WX program conducted an SRMP over two days and came up with five
haza rds for the system. The hazards addressed were the RADAR mosaic on ERAM,
ATOP, and MEARTS. Windshear/Microburst alerts to the Ribbon displays in the control
tower, and the last was model data being used in the decision support tools such as
TBFM, and EDST.
Site surveys were conducted at the key sites for both CSS - WX and NWP were
conducted for ZTL, ZLC, A80, ATL , PDK, SLC, ZOA, and NCT. The key site installations
will be in July 2018 for CSS - WX and July 2019 for NWP. Full deployment of both
systems is scheduled to be completed the end of 2021. A training TIM was conducted
over two days focusing on most the docum ents and schedule for development of training
for both AT and Tech OPS. The current idea for AT training will be an ELMS course for
buttonology and a Cadre training to teach scenario - based operational use of weather
products.
