Our applied turbulence research ativities are focussed on providing improved turbulence detection and forecasting products to the operational aviation and meteorological communities.

Short-term time and space specific forecasts of thunderstorms provide valuable information for a wide range of users, including the aviation community, ground transportation, urban emergency and water resources management groups, recreation facilities, construction industries, and the military, to safely and efficiently deploy resources. > more

Our scientists are conducting research related to the formation and prediction of snow and freezing drizzle in support of improved methods of detecting and forecasting these conditions at airports.

Our in-flight icing research provides interesting and challenging studies in cloud physics, remote sensing, and mesoscale meteorology.

Recent activities have focused on rainfall estimation and the development of procedures for retrieving the DSD with the "constrained-gamma" model using measurements of radar.

We seek to firmly establish the physical chain of events in precipitation development so that perturbations, both intentional and inadvertent, can be understood and quantified.

Our Oceanic Weather program focuses applied research and product development on the international need for better forecasts of weather-related aviation hazards in data-sparse oceanic regions.

Land-Surface Atmosphere Interactions

Our objectives are to understand, through theoretical and observational studies, the complex interactions (including biophysical, hydrological, and biogeochemical interactions) between the land-surface and the atmosphere at micro- and meso-scales. > more

The most critical impact of adverse C&V is on the general aviation (GA) pilot, particularly during in-route flight where unexpected encounters with reduced ceiling and visibility conditions are most likely.

We develop, test, and implement operational forecasting systems for new areas of the world. This entails better understanding local dynamical processes through the use of special data.

Water resource activities are focused in the following areas: surface hydrology for urban flash flood autonowcasting; hydrologic and water resource assessment of rainfall enhancement.

Verification

Verification is an integral part of the research and product development cycle at RAL. The forecast evaluation process provides many types of information including objective model comparisons... > more