II. Significant Accomplishments

Science Highlights

• Demonstration of the in-situ turbulence algorithm on United aircraft

• Collection of wind and thermodynamic data near Colorado Springs in order to improve techniques to detect and forecast hazardous winds and turbulence in the vicinity of mountains

• Completion of the Hong Kong Operational Windshear Warning System Project

• Demonstration of the Weather Support to Deicing Decision Makers system at Chicago O'Hare and New York LaGuardia airports.

• Precipitation estimation studies using multi-parameter radar and rain gauge data

• Development of a technique to infer cloud droplet sizes from satellite data

• Operational tests of the Auto-nowcaster at White Sands Missile Range, National Weather Service Office at Sterling, Virginia, and the Aviation Weather Center at Kansas City.

• Development of a climatology for aircraft icing from supercooled large droplets

• Conduct of a warm cloud seeding field program in Coahuila, Mexico in order to evaluate new hygroscopic seeding techniques developed in South Africa

• Development of an Operational Weather Analysis and Forecasting System for White Sands Missile Range and for the West Desert Test Center in Dugway, Utah
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