Turbulence is a leading cause of aviation injuries in the US air transport sector and there are technologies with the potential to mitigate this impact. However development of these systems is hindered by the lack of accurate information to determine whether they are economically feasible based...

The tropospheric airborne meteorological data and reporting (TAMDAR) system is a new meteorological data collection system carried aloft by participating aircraft to gather weather data and relay this information to ground-based receiving stations for distribution into the national system for...