Beginning this Monday June 4th through Friday June 15th, the 2012 Aviation Weather Testbed Summer Experiment will create, test, and refine the next generation national aviation weather forecast: The Aviation Weather Statement. Working in teams, Aviation Weather Center (AWC) forecasters and participants from the AWC’s government, academic, and private partners will collaboratively develop this new forecast product within the Aviation Weather Testbed. To assist them, they will use and evaluate emerging weather data sets that focus on identifying high-impact atmospheric convection. The Aviation Weather Testbed participants will evaluate which GOES-R convective products are useful for input into the Aviation Weather Statement.
During each week, Testbed participants will rotate through two traffic-flow management desks, one high-resolution model desk, and the GOES-R product demonstration desk. Although the demonstration products will be available at each desk, having a dedicated desk for GOES-R products will allow the participants to focus on them in greater detail. The GOES-R desk’s responsibility will be to use demonstration products and imagery to monitor areas of convective initiation and high-impact convection that disrupts traffic flow and/or terminals and then coordinate that information with the traffic flow management desks.
Close interaction between participants (i.e., AWC forecasters, academia, and AWC partners) and the GOES-R liaisons will drive the feedback process that can be followed in real-time through blog posts each day. At the end of each day, participants will also complete survey questions related to their experiences which will be followed by a debriefing.
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