International Airport Operations Safety
Wind Profilers, Radiometers, Lidars, Sodars, Numerical Modeling, Wind Shear Detection and Alerting, Fog and Inversion Nowcasting, Low-level Jets, Sounding Indices
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WDSS has significant experience in design and delivery of instrumentation and forecast systems to operational forecasters responsible for international airport locations. WDSS partners with instrumentation companies to deliver systems that enhance aerodrome aviation safety. WDSS works with the local aviation agencies to understand their specific issues and tailors specific solutions to help identify and mitigate these issues.
The WDSS airport systems include instrumentation, hardware, software, and display systems in a turnkey fashion that provide detection, nowcasting, and automated alerts of weather hazardous to aviation operations. Instrumentation includes wind profilers, radiometers, sodars, and lidars integrated with local instrumentation to determine the presence of wind shear and low-level jets, provide fog and inversion detection and trending, along with various sounding indices and their trends.
Data and products are provided to meteorologists and ATC personnel through customized display systems.
Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Africa, Bahrain
Case Studies
Africa – Agency for Aerial Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA)
WDSS delivered SkyCast systems to five ASECNA airports in west Africa including NDJ, NIM, NKC, BKO, and OUA. Each airport has a radar wind profiler, radiometer, Sodar, and surface station. Wind shear detection and alerting, nowcasting and trending algorithms are...
Bahrain – Bahrain International Airport (BAH) RWTPS
The BAH project consisted of delivery of a Wind and Thermodynamic Profiling System WTPS to the Bahrain Civil Aviation Affairs (BCAA). The BAH instrumentation consists of a MPR, RWP, and integration of local surface data. The system performs wind shear detection and...
Abu Dhabi International Airport (AUH)
The SkyCast Wind and Thermodynamic Profiling System (WTPS) delivered to the Abu Dhabi International Airport integrates data from a Radar Wind Profiler (RWP), a Microwave Profiling Radiometer (MPR), and local AWOS data and processes these data through analysis and...
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