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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2024-110
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2024-110
28 Jun 2024
 | 28 Jun 2024
Status: a revised version of this preprint was accepted for the journal AMT and is expected to appear here in due course.

EMADDC: high quality, quickly available and high volume wind and temperature observations from aircraft using the Mode-S EHS infrastructure

Siebren de Haan, Paul de Jong, Michal Koutek, and Jan Sondij

Abstract.

Temperature and wind observations from aircraft are regarded of major importance for aviation meteorology and numerical weather prediction (NWP). The European Meteorological Aircraft Derived Data Center (EMADDC) system processes aircraft surveillance data received from air traffic control (ATC) and converts it into observations of wind and temperature. Only so-called Mode-S Enhanced Surveillance data can be used, because this data contains the air vector and ground vector of the aircraft, from which a wind vector can be inferred. To acquire high quality observations, the data is processed in three steps: pre-processing, processing, and post-processing. The pre-processing is needed to obtain high-quality information and to calculate several correction values such as temperature corrections and heading corrections. Processing converts the aircraft data into meteorological information and finally post-processing guarantees that only high-quality information is made available. The quality of the observations produced is verified by comparing these observation to other upper air wind and temperature observations from radiosondes and comparing them with NWP data. This paper presents the EMADDC system, operational since 2019.
 

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