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Advancing technologies in winter weather forecasting

23 February 2017 | By Jaakko Nuottokari | General Manager of the Northern Europe Aviation Meteorology Consortium (NAMCON)

General Manager of the Northern Europe Aviation Meteorology Consortium (NAMCON), Jaakko Nuottokari, discusses the challenges and obstacles involved in the efficient running of an airport in adverse weather and examines the new technologies in place to help with advanced forecasting.

Why The Weather Company can help airports streamline operations

15 February 2017 | By John Szatkowski | Director | Commercial Aviation | The Weather Company | IBM

It's holiday season and both the temperature and traffic around any airport is overwhelming. How might airports streamline their operations when it matters?

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Winter operations – Developing weather forecast capabilities

13 January 2017 | By Jon Dutton

Jon Dutton, Met Office Aviation Business Manager explores how developments in forecasting capability combined with a detailed understanding of airport challenges and operations enables confident decision making in the lead up to, and during, high-impact weather events.

Winter Operations supplement #1 2016

26 January 2016 | By International Airport Review

Featuring articles from the Met Office, Warsaw Chopin Airport and Toronto Pearson International Airport...

Meteorology: Top notch aviation weather services for Hong Kong

26 January 2016 | By Chi-ming Shun and Pak-wai Chan of the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO)

As the third busiest airport in the world, with a passenger throughput of over 63 million in 2014, Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) faces the challenge of sustaining smooth operations during hostile weather conditions. Chi-ming Shun and Pak-wai Chan of the Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) reveal how in order to…

Meteorological Technology: Modelling the atmosphere

12 June 2013 | By Dr Helen Wells, Manager of the Aviation Meteorology Research and Development Team at the Met Office

The Met Office works across all areas of the aviation industry to help ensure safe and efficient operations. Dr Helen Wells, Manager of the Aviation Meteorology Research and Development Team at the Met Office, provides an overview of the services provided.

More than just Scotch mist

7 December 2012 | By Mark Stuart, Director of Operations at Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd

In the last few years the UK has experienced winter weather conditions more akin to the Arctic, with sub-zero temperatures and extremes of weather that have tested the transport system to its limits. With Scotland often bearing the brunt, regional airport operator HIAL has developed innovative ways to keep passengers…

Technology vs the elements

28 March 2012 | By Joshua Paurus, Duty Manager, Airside Operations at Minneapolis–St Paul International Airport

People, process and technology are all part of an effective winter opera - tions strategy. The extent that each component is successfully integrated with the others plays a large role in influencing the outcome of a winter operations event. At Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport (MSP) we have a history of…

Forecasting for efficiency

7 February 2012 | By David Gibbs, Aviation Business Manager, The Met Office

The Met Office works across all areas of the aviation industry to help ensure safe and efficient operations. We provide a wide range of services such as specialist web sites, forecaster telephone advice, SMS text alerts and high resolution data services to name a few. These services are tailored to…

Learning from the past

7 February 2012 | By Jan Michalak, Head of Warsaw Chopin Airport Maintenance Service

Warsaw Chopin Airport has spent a large amount of investment on winter main - tenance during the 2010/11 season. Never before in the airport’s history had the struggle with snow and ice required so much effort and resources. So what can we expect in 2012? According to data from the…

Weather watching

11 April 2011 | By Doug Johnson, Head of Transport at the UK Met Office

The coldest December in 100 years brought into sharp focus the impact that weather can have on the UK’s airports. Across Europe and North America heavy snowfalls and ice brought airports more used to severe winter weather to a standstill. But in a warming world, changing weather patterns are potentially…

Airports and aviation weather services: A new alliance forming?

1 December 2006 | By Dr. H. Puempel, Chief of Aeronautical Meteorology Unit, World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Ever since the Wright Brothers, prior to the first motorised flight, worried about prevalent wind directions in 1904, aviation and weather have been twinned by fate and forced to work together. Aviators learned to respect weather from the day that they first attempted to fly; apart from human error, it…

How to avoid bad weather delays

16 September 2005 | By Doug Johnson, Aviation Programme Manager, Met Office

In this article Doug Johnson describes how aviation users can utilise improved meteorological information to move beyond minimum safety requirements and towards increased business benefits.