Abstract
A wind-shear now-casting system for Hong Kong International Airport is described. The system has been configured and run retrospectively for the period from January to April 2018 at 20-min intervals using two sets of meteorological inputs to quantify uncertainty. Outputs from the system include calculations of headwind for the northerly and southerly runways at the airport. Six metrics have been defined that attempt to identify areas of strong wind shear; these involve quantification of headwind and headwind gradient in both the horizontal and vertical directions. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves have been generated for all metrics, runways, and meteorological conditions using pilot wind-shear reports to define wind-shear events. These curves allow for derivation of metric thresholds that could be used within an operational system to provide wind-shear alerts. The skill of the system for the 4-month period was quantified in terms of the probability of detection (POD, ideal value 1.0) of wind-shear events; system performance was better for the southerly runway, with the majority of POD values in the range 0.6 to 0.8.
Subject
Atmospheric Science,Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
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