STCE workshop - Natural Hazard Assessment for Aviation

Session

Morning Session - part 2

2 Jun 2015, 11:15

Meridian room (Royal Observatory of Belgium)

Description

Chair: M. Kruglanski

21. Radar and lightning nowcasting products for aviation safety authorities: BELLS, INCA-BE and VBIRD

D. Poelman (KMI-IRM), M. Reyniers (KMI-IRM)

02/06/2015, 11:15

Since mid 2013, the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium sends the output of the INCA-BE system in real-time to Belgocontrol, the Belgian air traffic safety authority. INCA-BE is a nowcasting system for the analysis and nowcasts of several meteorological fields, like temperature, humidity, wind, cloudiness, precipitation and some derived fields like precipitation type and visibility. It...

22. The support to aviation control service, an overview and recent developments

N. Theys (BIRA-IASB)

02/06/2015, 11:40

The Support to Aviation Control Service (SACS; http://sacs.aeronomie.be) is an on-line service displaying in near real-time satellite observations of volcanic ash and SO2. Relying both on UV-visible (OMI, GOME-2, OMPS) and thermal infrared (IASI, AIRS) satellite sounders, it is aimed at aviation authorities, atmospheric scientists and volcanologists. In addition to the near real-time data, the...

23. Running the Lagrangian dispersion model, FLEXPART in an operational context at RMI

A. Delcloo (KMI-IRM)

02/06/2015, 12:05

FLEXPART is a Lagrangian particle dispersion transport model which is originally designed for calculating the long-range and mesoscale dispersion of air pollutants from point sources. Through the years, these type of models have proven to be a very useful tool in an operational context for the protection of the population in case of accidents in a nuclear power plant. In the meantime, FLEXPART...