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Digital Services for Aviation

Digital Services for Aviation. What are Digital Aviation Services. Adding aviation elements to the National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) Provide hourly graphical forecasts of ceiling and visibility out to 36 hours TAFs are generated from the database with forecaster oversight.

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Digital Services for Aviation

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  1. Digital Services for Aviation

  2. What are Digital Aviation Services Adding aviation elements to the National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) Provide hourly graphical forecasts of ceiling and visibility out to 36 hours TAFs are generated from the database with forecaster oversight

  3. Moves toward the NextGen requirements: Digital ceiling and visibility Build a national ceiling and visibility grid to be used by AWC Consistent aviation forecasts, the Single Authoritative Source (SAS) for C&V Important guidance tool for medical services, search and rescue, and GA Improves NWS forecast consistency with aviation forecasts and beyond Why Digital Aviation Services?

  4. Participating NWS Forecast Offices are producing experimental digital forecasts of ceiling and visibility Boston, MA Jackson, KY Caribou, ME Charleston, WV Greenville-Spartanburg, SC Sterling, VA and Chicago, IL (Coming Soon) Who is Producing Aviation Grids

  5. Operations Assessment • Customers noticing a difference • Increased consistency between TAFs and other products • More frequent and proactive updates • Forecast information available for any point in forecast domain • Users can take the gridded database and create their own forecast products and displays • “We have clearly noticed improved TAF performance and improved consistency in all public forecast products in the Boston area since NWS has been producing TAFs from the ceiling and visibility grids.” - Rick Curtis, Chief Meteorologist, Southwest Airlines

  6. A Change in Thinking KBED KBOS What About Here??? KORH KPVD

  7. Current and Future Initiatives • Coordinate the national requirements for Enhanced Digital Services • TRACON forecasts produced from grids • Enhance verification for the future • Assess new guidance tools e.g. - Gridded LAMP, and high resolution numerical model output • AWC to produce the Area Forecast from a national C&V grid

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