Cluster Analysis of Severe Weather Days of 2004

Abstract

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) of the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) is charged with modeling future NAS enhancements. Modeling must consider a number of scenarios under which NAS enhancements will operate. One important scenario is severe en route weather in the CONUS. Because of the complexity of the simulation modeling and limited resources, only a few scenario days will be selected to represent the impact on the NAS of severe weather. A challenge is how to select the days for modeling. On one hand, one could argue that severe weather patterns and movements are quite different each day, making each day unique - this makes selection arbitrary and trivial. However, there may be sufficient similarity of severe weather on certain days, and that grouping of days is feasible. If groupings are feasible, then selection of sample days could be more informed.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2004
Accession Number
AD1126163

Entities

People

  • Jim Dearmon

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Accuracy
  • Agreements
  • Air Traffic
  • Algorithms
  • Cancellation
  • Classification
  • Climate Change
  • Clustering
  • Commerce
  • Competition
  • Data Reduction
  • Detection
  • Filtration
  • Graphics
  • Great Lakes
  • Lakes
  • New England
  • Personality
  • Simulations
  • Traffic

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Systems Analysis and Design