1. { AWC and OCONUS: satellite user readiness in the evolving aviation forecasting mission Amanda Terborg OCONUS 2016 Honolulu, HI

2.  The AAWU covers all of Alaska Region  The AWC provids backup operations forAAWU should the need arise  Volcanic Ash SIGMETs  CSIGs  High-level turbulence and icing SIGMETs (FL250 and above)  The AAWU does NOT provide any AWC backup (Exeter does) Backup operations Alaska Aviation Weather Unit

3.  HFO covers a significant portion of the Pacific, including several main flight routes between the West Coast terminals and HNL  The AWC provids backup operations for HFO should the need arise  Area forecast over the Islands  Any AIRMETs/SIGMETs  Vice versa, HFO provides backup for AWC’s international SIGMETs and some tropical FAs Backup operations Hawaii Forecast Office

4. NWS aviation weather services collaboration effort - Enhance graphical forecasts instead? - Create gridded products? - We have a chance to create consistency between us… …except we’re on all the different platforms (N- AWIPS, AWIPS-2, and IC4D) - All AWIPS-2 - C&V grids… start here - Expand that to WFOs… i.e. start with CONUS grids and let WFOs modify for local and meso scale climates, etc., and then send back - Expand that to turbulence, icing, etc. in the future.. Beginning  text FA product being retired as per the FAA’s requirement HFO and AAWU face the same requirement Digital Aviation Services (DAS) effort and overall consistency

5. Proving Ground integration and collaboration…  Consistency in products and product generation  consistency in Proving Ground demonstrations and evaluations, and future use of GOES-R/JPSS satellite data  AAWU  Ceiling and visibility products  RGBs  Fog and Low Stratus  Ceiling?  Icing  Volcanic Ash  Hawaii  Icing (no, I’m not kidding)  Volcanic Ash…?  Ceiling or others…?

6. { Evaluation and training; user readiness in aviation forecasting Working with the AAWU

7.  Started at the 2015 OCONUS meeting in Anchorage  Don Moore’s request for more GOES-R/JPSS Proving Ground participation  20% of AWC satellite liaison time to be spent on AAWU related PG activities  aviation and satellite focus  Eric Stevens and Carl Dierking, High Latitude PG liaisons, collaborating  Alaska satellite experts  Started 6 month in person visits to the AAWU and CWSU in September of 2015:  Set up the 2016 AAWU demonstration plan  Icing products  Various C&V RGBs already in operations  Also support any other satellite related issues noted by the AAWU if possible AAWU collaboration

8.  Evaluating GOES-R/JPSS products with the AAWU and Anchorage CWSU forecasters  For 2016:  Flight Icing Threat  now in AWIPS-2 in AR  Various C&V RGBs and imagery  In person trip to AAWU with Eric Stevens May 2-6 th  Roughly two thirds of AAWU forecasters trained or at least spoken to on shift, more at the AWC testbed earlier in 2016  Icing  Several RGBs  All Anchorage CWSU forecasters trained  Also helped with some generic satellite operations issues  Icing products already being utilized for AAWU operations  May 6 th, 2016 over Deadhorse in freezing rain AAWU collaboration

10. Collaboration beyond in person:  Continued examination and evaluation of cases as collected and shared by AAWU forecasters  Feedback share via Google form survey (thank you to Michael Folmer for the basic structure)  Bi-monthly chat with AAWU forecasters and SOO  1-hour webex/phone chat for liaisons and the AAWU  Case studies using imagery already available in AAWU ops  Various scientific discussions on satellite products (Volcanic Ash, smoke, dust, icing, etc.)  Caveats to products in operations (day/night band ‘gotchas’, icing weaknesses, etc.  Generic satellite operations issues  Forecaster question and answer time – providing an opportunity to ask any satellite related question AAWU collaboration

11. { Broader collaboration Working with Honolulu

12.  HFO participated the 2015 Summer Experiment and 2016 Winter Experiment; will possibly participate in the 2016 Summer Experiment  For Digital Aviation Services effort  AWC staff been out to visit Honolulu several teams in order to further explore the future of aviation services  Proving Ground  some icing cases surrounding Honolulu being explored  It’s rare, but icing does happen in the tropics  Examining the icing algorithms for potential use  Further collaboration in the future? HFO collaboration

14. { Where do we go now? Summary & the future

15.  AAWU  Began collaboration in September 2015 after the OCONUS meeting in June  Very successful so far with a great group of forecasters!  Hope to continue collaboration in conjunction with the FA transition and Digital Aviation Services efforts  Will continue to work with the AAWU and ZNC to support the GOES-R/JPSS PG activities, including after launch  HFO  Only a broad collaboration right now  Idea tossing  Hope to establish closer collaboration as part of the FA transition and Digital Aviation Services effort  Will continue to explore Hawaii icing cases and other avenues of PG activities with AWC Summary & Future Work

16. { Thanks for listening! amanda.terborg@noaa.gov Questions?