| WSAP Director
Weather Systems & Assessment Program (WSAP)
303-497-8426
mahoney ucar.edu
Job Duties
Responsible for programs within the Weather Systems and Assessment
Program including, verification and validation, surface
transportation (rail and highways), international aviation (Taiwan
Advanced Operational Aviation Weather System), advanced
forecasting systems (e.g., DICast), Societal and Economic Impacts
Program, outreach, and strategic program development.
Professional Interests
Surface transportation weather, aviation weather, mesoscale meteorology,
forecasting systems, radar meteorology, agricultural weather, and
cloud physics.
Education
1983 M.S., Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming
1981 B.S., Aeronautics, Miami University
Selected Publications
Pisano, P.A., Stern, A.D., and W.P. Mahoney: Winter Road Maintenance
Decision Support System (MDSS): Demonstration Results and Future
Plans. /Preprints, 20^th Conference on Interactive Information and
Processing Systems, 12-16 January 2004, //Seattle//, //WA//. /AMS,
Boston, MA.**
Mahoney, W.P. and L. Smithson, 2003: Improving the Safety, Efficiency,
and Capacity of the Highway System by Improving the Use of Weather
Information. Forum White Paper. AMS Policy Forum: Weather and Highways,
4-5 November 2003, Washington, D.C., AMS, Boston, MA.
Mahoney, W.P., 2003: Decision Support Systems for Winter Road Maintenance:
Opportunities for Radar Data. Preprints, 31st Conference on Radar
Meteorology, 6-12 August 2003, Seattle, WA. Amer. Meteor. Soc, Boston,
MA.
Mahoney, W.P., and W. L. Myers, 2003: Predicting Weather and Road
Conditions: An Integrated Decision Support Tool for Winter Road
Maintenance Operations. Transportation Research Record: Journal
of the Transportation Research Board, No 824, 2003, pages 98-105.
Mahoney, W.P. and Bruce Donaldson, 1997: Automatic windshear warning
system designed to enhance flight safety and operational efficiency.
ICAO Journal, January/February 1997.
Mahoney, W.P. and Bruce Donaldson, 1996: The Operational Windshear
Warning System for Hong Kong's New Airport, Journal of ATC, Oct-Dec
1996.
Mahoney, W.P., Edward Brandes, and Robert Barron, 1994: Weather
Detection for Airport Terminals: Advanced Radar Design Considerations,
European Commission, COST 75, Weather Radar Systems, International
Seminar, Brussels, Belgium, 20-23 September 1994, 626-637.
Mahoney, W.P. III and Cleon Biter, 1993: Windshear detection: terminal
Doppler weather radar and the low-level windshear alert system operational
experiences in Denver 1987-1992, Preprints, 5th Intl. Conf. On Aviation
Weather Systems, 1-5 August, Vienna, VA. AMS, Boston, MA.
Mahoney, W.P. III, John Caron, Frank Hage, Steve Delp, Deirdre
Roach, Gary Blackburn, and Cleon Biter, 1993: The prototype aviation
weather products generator: a vehicle to assess user needs. Preprints,
5th Intl. Conf. On Aviation Weather Systems, 1-6 August, Vienna,
VA. AMS, Boston, MA.
Mahoney, W.P. III and K. L. Elmore, 1991: The Evolution and Fine-Scale
Structure of a Microburst-producing Cell. Monthly Weather Review,
January, 119, 176-192.
Mahoney, W.P.,III, 1988: Gust front characteristics and the kinematics
associated with interacting thunderstorm outflows. Monthly Weather
Review, 116, 1474-1491.
Mahoney, W.P., III, 1987: Aircraft measurements on microburst development
from hydrometeor evaporation. Journal of Atmospheric Science, 44,
3037-3051.
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