NASA NTRS · 20200005621
TPSAS-NF1676L-13135-DND
Abstract
Aircraft Icing - Aircraft structures act as ice nuclei in supercooled clouds - ice collects, weight increases, plane falls - Pilots need to know where and when icing can occur - PIREPS are first order: sparse, aircraft dependent, location uncertain - Model analyses and forecasts: freezing levels, cloud expectations - radar => precipitation - All combined in NCAR/FAA/NOAA/NASA program to provide Current Icing Product (CIP) & Forecast Icing product (FIP) analyses to pilots (CONUS) - some inadequacies remain - NWP uncertainties, intensity, altitude of icing, etc. - Operational satellites can add valuable information - indirectly: input of cloud properties to CIP & NWP - directly: determination of icing threat from real time satellite data
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William L Smith, Patrick Minnis, Kristopher Michael Bedka, Fu-lung Chang, Cecilia Wang Fleeger, Douglas A Spangenberg, Rabindra Palikonda, Christopher R Yost. TPSAS-NF1676L-13135-DND. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20200005621
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