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Analysis of Convective Weather Impact on Pre-Departure Routing of Flights from Fort Worth Center to New York CenterIn response to severe weather conditions, Traffic Managers specify flow constraints and reroutes to route air traffic around affected regions of airspace. Providing analysis and recommendations of available reroute options and associated airspace capacities would assist Traffic Managers in making more efficient decisions in response to convective weather. These recommendations can be developed by examining historical data to determine which previous reroute options were used in similar weather and traffic conditions. This paper describes the initial steps and methodology used towards this goal. The focus of this work is flights departing from Fort Worth Center destined for New York Center. Dominant routing structures used in the absence of convective weather are identified. A method to extract relevant features from the large volume of weather data available to quantify the impact of convective weather on this routing structure over a given time range is presented. Finally, a method of estimating flow rate capacity along commonly used routes during convective weather events is described. Results show that the flow rates drop exponentially as a function of the values of the proposed feature and that convective weather on the final third of the route was found to have a greater impact on the flow rate restriction than other portions of the route.
Document ID
20170005260
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Arneson, Heather
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA United States)
Bombelli, Alessandro
(California Univ. Irvine, CA, United States)
Segarra-Torne, Adria
(California Univ. Irvine, CA, United States)
Tse, Elmer
(Georgia Inst. of Tech. Atlanta, GA, United States)
Date Acquired
June 7, 2017
Publication Date
June 5, 2017
Subject Category
Air Transportation And Safety
Report/Patent Number
ARC-E-DAA-TN42349
Meeting Information
Meeting: AIAA Aviation 2017
Location: Denver, CO
Country: United States
Start Date: June 5, 2017
End Date: June 9, 2017
Sponsors: American Inst. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
Keywords
traffic flow management
trajectory-based operations
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