Title: Aviation Weather Forecaster Training Plans
1Aviation Weather ForecasterTraining Plans
- LeRoy Spayd
- NWS Office of Meteorology
- Chief, Science Training Core
- Aviation Weather Forum
- July 26, 2000
2OUTLINE
- NWS Aviation Weather Forecasting Training
Requirements - Learning Materials Available
- FY2001 Development Efforts
3NWS Aviation Weather Forecasting Training
Requirements
- For all NWS job areas, subject matter expert
meetings were held to define universe of
potential training needs - 288 total training units, 31 of which are related
to Aviation Weather Forecasting - From this universe, NWS has an internal process
to prioritize which items to develop in any given
year
4NWS Aviation Weather Forecasting Training
Requirements (cont.)
- Interagency team of experts defined a complete
set of job-based training requirements for NWS, - Air Force, and Navy forecasters
- Forecasting Aviation Icing
- Forecasting Low-Altitude Clouds and Fog for
Aviation Operations - Forecasting Turbulence
- Impact of Aviation Weather on Customers
- CWSU On-Station Systems/Operations
- Issuing Effective CWSU Products
5NWS Aviation Weather Forecasting Training
Requirements (cont.)
- Highest priority training requirements defined by
NWS field users support Service Areas identified
in National Aviation Weather Initiatives
document - Ceiling Visibility
- Convective Hazards
- Enroute Terminal Winds/Temperatures
- In-Flight Icing
- Turbulence
- Volcanic Ash/Other Airborne Hazards
6Learning Materials Available
- NWS/Cooperative Program for Operational
Meteorology, Education and Training (COMET)
modules now available for access via the World
Wide Web (Co-Funded by Air Force and Navy) - Forecasting Aviation Icing Type and Severity
- Forecasting Aviation Icing Icing Assessment
Using Sounding and Wind Profiles - Forecasting Aviation Icing Icing Assessment
Using Observations and Pilot Reports - Radiation Fog
7 8 9 10Learning Materials Available (cont.)
- NWS/COMET CD Module
- Review of GOES-IR Imagery Including Winter and
Icing Applications (done for Air Force) - NWS/COMET Resource Data Set
- Forecasting Aviation Icing The Icing Event of 6
March 1996
11 12Available Convective Hazards Training Resources
- NWS has developed the following training for
Convective Hazards - NWS Operational Support Facility/Operations
Training Branch (OSF/OTB) - WSR-88D Distance Learning Operations Course
- Warning Decision Making Workshop
- Supercell Explorer
- Storm Type and Prognostic Soundings
- Online case studies
- NWS/Central Region
- Heavy Precipitation Supercell
13Available Convective Hazards Training Resources
(cont.)
- NWS/COMET
- Anticipating Storm Structure and Evolution
- Mesoscale Convective Systems Squall Lines and
Bow Echoes - The Convective Storm Matrix
- Online case studies
- NWS Training Center (NWSTC)
- Local climatological data base development for
critical severe weather parameters (in
conjunction with NWS/Storm Prediction Center)
14Learning Materials Available
- NWS Alaska Region has provided a workshop for
their forecasters on the Volcanic Ash and Other
Airborne Hazards Service area - results of
collaborative projects - NWS/COMET hosts a Resource Training Web Page,
which currently contains presentation materials
on the following topics - Great Lakes Workshop Mesoscale Convective System
Case Study of 13 July 95 - Methodology for Forecasting Slantwise Convection
- Aviation Wind Shear and Low Level Wind Shear
15Weather Training for Pilots
- NWS/COMET produced a demonstration module on
icing with multi-agency participation - - OFCM - FAA - Navy
- - Air Force - NASA - AOPA
- - Australian Bureau of Meteorology
- Implementation suspended due to lack of funding
- Good learning experience to adapt materials for
other users
16FY2001 Training Development
- NWSTC to begin work on a web-based unit on
forecasting turbulence with the NWS Aviation
Weather Center - Continued development of web-based modules on
Forecasting Low-Altitude Clouds and Fog by
NWS/COMET - Overview of Fog
- West Coast Fog
- Fog Cases
17 18FY2001 Training Development (cont.)
- NWS/COMET to develop and begin offering a
directed distance learning course on Forecasting
Low-Altitude Clouds and Fog - To include self-paced and instructor-led modules
(including teletraining) - Focus on Assessing Physical Processes leading to
the Development, Movement, or Dissipation of Low-
Altitude Clouds and Fog During the Forecast
Period - Course also will touch on Forecasting the
Spatial and Temporal Onset and Dissipation of
Low-altitude Clouds and Fog
19Summary
- Continuing to develop high priority aviation
weather forecaster training materials - If funded, these materials could be adapted for
other users - Web address for modules
- www.comet.ucar.edu/modules/index.htm