Remote Sensing of In-Flight Icing Conditions: Operational, Meteorological, and Technological Considerations
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NASA/CRm2000-209938 ERDC-CRREL M-00-1 Remote Sensing of In-Flight Icing Conditions: Operational, Meteorological, and Technological Considerations Charles C. Ryerson U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Hanover, New Hampshire March 2000 _! The NASA STI Program Office... in Profile Since its founding, NASA has been dedicated to CONFERENCE PUBLICATION. Collected the advancement of aeronautics and space papers from scientific and technical science. The NASA Scientific and Technical conferences, symposia, seminars, or other Information (STI) Program Office plays a key part meetings sponsored or cosponsored by in helping NASA maintain this important role. NASA. The NASA STI Program Office is operated by SPECIAL PUBLICATION. Scientific, Langley Research Center, the Lead Center for technical, or historical information from NASA's scientific and technical information. 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Ryerson U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Hanover, New Hampshire Prepared under Customer Order Number C-73343-E National Aeronautics and Space Administration Glenn Research Center March 2000 Acknowledgments Funding for this report was provided by the NASA Glenn Research Center, Icing Technology Branch, under NASA customer order no. C-73343-E, In-Flight Remote Sensing Icing Avoidance. The author wishes to thank A. Reehorst of the NASA Glenn Research Center and G. Koenig of CRREL for extensive reviews of this report and constructive comments, A. Clifford and the CRREL Library for literature acquisition, T. Vaughan for the cover art, and M. Bergstad of CRREL for editing. Cover: Artist's rendering of possible cockpit display as aircraft enters regions of hazardous icing conditions. The display would be created from information gathered from either on-board remote sensors or ground-based sensors uplinking information to the aircraft. Available from NASA Center for Aerospace Information National Technical Information Service 7121 Standard Drive 5285 Port Royal Road Hanover, MD 21076 Springfield, VA 22100 Price Code: A04 Price Code: A04 CONTENTS Glossary ..................................................................................................................................... nl 1.0 Executive Summary ............................................................................................................. 1 2.0 Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 2 2.1 Purpose ........................................................................................................................... 2 2.2 Scope .............................................................................................................................. 2 2.3 Goal ................................................................................................................................ 2 2.4 Relevance ....................................................................................................................... 3 2.5 Philosophy ..................................................................................................................... 4 2.6 Organization of this report ............................................................................................. 4 3.0 Operational requirements ..................................................................................................... 5 3.1 Summary ........................................................................................................................ 5 3.2 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 6 3.3 Pilot needs and human factors ....................................................................................... 6 3.4 Manufacturers and operators .......................................................................................... 8 3.5 Regulatory issues, weather forecasting, and traffic management .................................. 9 3.6 Test beds and platforms .................................................................................................. 10 4.0 Meteorological sensing requirements .................................................................................. 11 4.1 Summary ........................................................................................................................ 11 4.2 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 13 4.3 Characterization needs ................................................................................................... 14 4.4 In-situ instrumentation ................................................................................................... 24 4.5 Terminology ................................................................................................................... 28 5.0 Technology development ..................................................................................................... 29 5.1 Summary ........................................................................................................................ 29 5.2 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 31 5.3 Radar .............................................................................................................................. 31 5.4 Passive microwave radiometers ..................................................................................... 39 5.5 Lidar ............................................................................................................................... 43 5.6 Temperature measurement ............................................................................................. 44 6.0 Recommendations 46 6.1 Operational needs research ............................................................................................ 47 6.2 Meteorological needs research ....................................................................................... 47 6.3 Technology needs reseach .............................................................................................. 47 7.0 Government roles, missions, and collaborative activities ................................................... 47 7.1 NASA ............................................................................................................................. 47 7.2 FAA ................................................................................................................................ 47 7.3 NCAR ............................................................................................................................ 47 7.4 NOAA ETL .................................................................................................................... 47 7,5 Department of Defense .................................................................................................. 48 8.0 Implementation .................................................................................................................... 48 9.0 Literature cited ..................................................................................................................... 48 NASA/CR--2000-209938