Drop in aircraft observations could have impact on weather forecasts
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One aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a reduction in aircraft flights
and thus of the aircraft-based observations available to weather prediction centres.
The observations are used together with many others
to help estimate the state of the Earth system at the start of forecasts.Source: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/news
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For daily air traffic reduction over Europe
https://www.eurocontrol.int/Economics/DailyTrafficVariation-States.html
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From the other hand, private flights have seen a significant rise in demand
for group evacuations from affected areas
and from passengers who are looking to protect themselves and their families. -
@Gkikas-LGPZ
In addition the spatial distribution of observations made by aircrafts used by the ECMWF model, run by run:Other observation types can be selected including SYNOP weather stations, ships, buoys, all observations made by satellites...
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@idefix37
Can we find the pro-covid AMDAR observations? -
@Gkikas-LGPZ
Here are archives of observations, but those are monthly averages. Waiting for March results, it will possible to make comparison with pro-covid averages?I got it from
https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/quality-our-forecasts/monitoring-observing-systemBut I didn’t look in detail. May you find what you need.
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Here's my contribution from ~2500 this morning: it's rough as hell today! What kinda Jack wagon goes up in weather like this anyways? Wind shear, near imc at times and freaking cold over 1k. Oughta get grounded I should... lol
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Looking for a way to integrate Windyty layer into an existing geospatial web application. I have one that is flex/flash based and one that is javascript based. For static data, I will sometimes use WMS (Web Map Service) to get this data. Thanks
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@iosman123 said in Drop in aircraft observations could have impact on weather forecasts:
Looking for a way to integrate Windyty layer into an existing geospatial web application. I have one that is flex/flash based and one that is javascript based. For static data, I will sometimes use WMS (Web Map Service) to get this data. Thanks ...
thanks my issue has been fixed.
