AMDAR data: New insights into Santiago’s air pollution problem

Ricardo Munoz M.Dep. Geophysics, University of Chile

GURME Meeting, Santiago, October 15, 2003

AMDAR: Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay Reports

USA-airlines: American, Delta, FedEx, Northwest, United, UPS

European airlines: Air France, British A., KLM, Lufthansa, SAS

Other airlines: Quantas, Air New Zealand, South African A.

Almost-real-time data with restricted access from NOAA’s Forecast Systems Laboratory at:

http://acweb.fsl.noaa.gov/

Descriptive Reference:

Automated meteorological reports from commercial aircraft.by W.R. Moninger, R.D. Mamrosh, P.M. PauleyBull. of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 84, N. 2, pp. 203-216

P=722 mb

P=947 mb (airport)

8 minutes, 15 data, 29 nm

P=539 mb

5 minutes, 21 data, 20 nm

Northerly winds aloft

Very calm layerinside the valley

Warming at 850-900 mb:

East winds?Induced subsidence?Horizontal gradients?

Almost-real-time data with restricted access from NOAA’s Forecast Systems Laboratory at:

http://acweb.fsl.noaa.gov/

Descriptive Reference:

Automated meteorological reports from commercial aircraft.by W.R. Moninger, R.D. Mamrosh, P.M. PauleyBull. of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 84, N. 2, pp. 203-216

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