Aircraft Icing: detection and forecasting
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Meteorology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 May 2022) | Viewed by 1740
Special Issue Editors
2. Centre for the Research of Agroenvironmental and Biological Sciences, CITAB, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, UTAD, 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal
Interests: windstorms; thunderstorms; tornadoes; downbursts; mountain waves and turbulence; aircraft icing
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Interests: boundary layer processes; surface-atmosphere coupling; climate change; regional climate modelling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Aircraft icing is an important threat to flight safety. For instance, in the United States, between 1998 and 2009, at least 565 aircraft accidents were related to ice accretion. In particular, supercooled large drops (SLD) associated with freezing drizzle or freezing rain can be extremely hazardous and have often been the cause of fatal aircraft accidents. More recently, another type of icing, known as ice crystal icing (ICI), has attracted the attention of the aviation industry and scientific community. ICI is caused by high ice water contents in deep convective clouds and has been responsible for several jet-engine power loss events.
In this Special Issue, we invite original and review articles dedicated to various types of aircraft icing, comprising case studies and statistical analyses. This Special Issue will cover articles describing new detection algorithms or methodologies based on the use of remote sensors, such as multichannel microwave radiometer, Doppler weather radar, and lidar. Moreover, it may include new developments on algorithms taking advantage of the increase in satellite spectral channels. On the forecasting side, this Special Issue addresses new algorithms based on numerical weather prediction (NWP) models or recent upgrades to NWP models aiming to predict explicitly precipitation types. Studies devoted to the synoptic environment associated with aircraft icing will also be included.
Dr. Margarida Belo-Pereira
Dr. Rita M. Cardoso
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Aircraft icing
- Ice accretion
- Supercooled cloud water
- • Ice crystal icing
- Freezing rain
- Freezing drizzle
- Icing algorithms
- Hoar frost
