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www.aviationweather.gov The Aviation Weather Center ( AWC ) provides weather information and forecasts for air flights over United States territory and at certain altitudes for global traffic. It works with customers, such as commercial airlines, and international partners to improve flight safety and efficiency.
Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay (AMDAR) is a program initiated by the World Meteorological Organization.AMDAR is used to collect meteorological data worldwide by using commercial aircraft.
For this reason, there are considerably fewer TAF locations than there are airports for which METARs are available. TAFs can be more accurate than numerical weather forecasts, since they take into account local, small-scale, geographic effects. Today, according to the advancement of technology in civil aviation, the TAF is sent as IWXXM model. [2]
An en-route weather phenomenon in the U.S., issued by the Aviation Weather Center in Kansas City, MO on the 7th of August, at 16:55 UTC [10] SIGC CONVECTIVE SIGMET 83C This is a convective weather pattern in the central region of the contiguous U.S. with sequence number 83C VALID UNTIL 1855Z That is valid until 18:55 UTC MI IN WI IL IA LM
In addition, a short period forecast called a TREND may be added at the end of the METAR covering likely changes in weather conditions in the two hours following the observation. These are in the same format as a Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF). The complement to METARs, reporting forecast weather rather than current weather, are TAFs.
ASR-9 is an airport surveillance radar system admitted into the National Airspace System (NAS), to be utilized by the Federal Aviation Administration to monitor civilian and commercial air traffic within the United States. Developed by Westinghouse, ASR-9 was the first radar system to display air traffic, and weather conditions simultaneously.
Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZOB) or Cleveland Center is located at 326 East Lorain Street, Oberlin, Ohio, United States. [1] The center is located about 30 miles (48 km) outside of the city of Cleveland. [2] The Cleveland ARTCC is the 11th busiest of the 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers in the United States.
The FAA completed an upgrade of the 230 FAA owned AWOS and former automated weather sensor systems (AWSS) systems to the AWOS-C configuration in 2017. [3] The AWOS-C is the most up-to-date FAA owned AWOS facility and can generate METAR/SPECI formatted aviation weather reports. The AWOS-C is functionally equivalent to the ASOS. [4]