more on TAMDAR
Posted by cypresstx on 4/9/2016, 6:26 am
Panasonic acquired AirDat in 2013


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAMDAR


https://www.ral.ucar.edu/projects/4dwx-tamdar-evaluation

In the late 2004, a pilot demonstration TAMDAR field program over the Great Lakes area, named the Great Lakes Field Experiment (GLFE), was jointly conducted by NASA, NOAA/FSL, NWS (National Weather Services), FAA, NOAA, Mesaba Airlines and AirDat. During GLFE, AirDat equipped 63 Mesaba Airlines' turboprop SAAB 340 aircrafts with TAMDAR sensors that measure both conventional meteorological variables including temperature, pressure, winds and humidity as well as icing, turbulence and GPS heights. In a typical day, these instrumented aircraft make about 400 flights a day, providing about 800 soundings at the regional and major airports in the region since Jan. 2005. At present, AirDat LLc, and NASA are in the process of enhancing TAMDAR sensors and implementing them onto more regional airlines.


http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/WAF-D-11-00120.1


http://www.crh.noaa.gov/tamdar/papers/TAMDARsensor.pdf


http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/2006ams_TAMDAR.html

I was likely on a Mesaba Airlines flight that used TAMAR in the experiment when I flew home to MN, it's the only airline that flew into those little airports !



reminds me of HWind Scientific - take a product that public funded $s got off the ground & run with it, sell it back to the public...

there must be a reason NOAA/NWS didn't keep using it?  
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