# Presentation: 474083

## Aviation Weather ForecasterTraining Plans

- LeRoy Spayd
- NWS Office of Meteorology
- Chief, Science & Training Core
- Aviation Weather Forum
- July 26, 2000

## OUTLINE 

- NWS Aviation Weather Forecasting Training Requirements
- Learning Materials Available
- FY2001 Development Efforts

## NWS 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

## NWS 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

## NWS 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

## Learning 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](slide7.xml)_
- _[Forecasting Aviation Icing :Icing Assessment Using Sounding and Wind Profiles](slide8.xml)_
- _[Forecasting Aviation Icing: Icing Assessment Using Observations and Pilot Reports](slide11.xml)_
- _[Radiation Fog](slide9.xml)_

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## Learning 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*

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## Available 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*

## Available 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)

## Learning 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

## Weather 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

## FY2001 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*

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## FY2001 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”

## Summary	

- 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