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Appendix D: Workshop Agenda
Pages 48-51

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... FAA Overview of Delay Problem from NAS Perspective Peter Challan, FAA, ATF-2 Deputy Associate Administrator for Air Tragic Services 48
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... Overview of CCFP Verification, CCFP Calibration Mark Phaneuf, AvMet Applications, Vice President Barbara Brown, NCAR, Project Scientist Current State of Development 1 1:30 A.M. Overview of Operational Forecasting Constraints in this Problem Fred Foss, Aviation Weather Center (A WC)
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... (Accurate means a desired false alarm rate (FAR) of <0.20, a probability of detection (POD)
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... Discussion Topic 3 What is the most appropriate way to present the forecast in an operational setting? · Consider the two main uses are flight planning and traffic flow management · Consider how the forecast will be developed and presented (i.e., purely probabilistic, deterministic)
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Key Terms

  • air traffic
  • convective forecast
  • flow management
  • forecast product
  • fred foss

  • michael fritsch
  • false alarm
  • domestic operations
  • collaborative convective
  • scientific enabling

  • alarm rate
  • enabling capabilities
  • carrier perspective
  • andrew crook
  • operations branch

  • weather center
  • desired false
  • accurate means
  • operational forecasting
  • kelvin droegemeier

  • associate administrator
  • aviation weather
  • modeling applied
  • delays due
  • jim washington

  • alexander macdonald
  • traffic planning
  • scheme makes
  • flight planning
  • numerical modeling


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