This paper describes an enhanced weather processor for the Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Surveillance Radar (ASR9) that will include Doppler wind estimation for the detection of low altitude wind shear, scan-to-scan tracking to provide estimates of the speed and direction of storm movement and suppression of spurious weather reports currently generated by the ASR-9’s six-level weath...

How do people translate their personal experiences into political attitudes? It has been difficult to explore this question using observational data, because individuals are typically exposed to experiences in a selective fashion, and self-reports of exposure may be biased and unreliable. In this study, we identify one experience to which Americans are exposed nearly at random—their local weath...

This paper describes MOKUSEI, an end-to-end Japanese version of our JUPITER weather information system. MOKUSEI delivers weather information over the phone through natural conversation with the user. For the most part, MOKUSEI uses the same components for recognition, understanding, and generation that JUPITER uses, and the database and the semantic frames for the weather information content ar...

Exceptionally severe winter storms that overwhelm local government result in major disaster declarations. Each National Weather Service forecast office in the United States reports winter events for a specific group of counties, known as the county warning area. Such events are reported as blizzard, ice storm, winter storm, heavy snow, or winter weather. They are archived by the National Climat...

Although pilots regard pilot weather reports (PIREPs) as valuable flight planning resources, the number of PIREPs that pilots submit is relatively small. In a previous survey, pilots indicated that submitting PIREPs sometimes requires too much effort, and that they are often unable to recall the information fields required to complete a report. Pilots also indicated that the idea of submitting ...

For years, the general public have been helping scientists to track weather, count birds, and observe the universe. Now such citizen scientists are starting to tackle research projects in the life sciences. Laura Bonetta reports.

Emeritus Professor Alan Glasper, from the University of Southampton, discusses the Care Quality Commission's annual report looking at health and social care in England.

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Faulty decision making due to inaccurate or incomplete awareness of the situation tends to be the prevailing cause of fatal general aviation accidents. Of these accidents, loss of weather situational awareness accounts for the largest number of fatalities. We describe a method for improving weather situational awareness through the support of a contextaware, domain and task knowledgeable, perso...