Safety News in Brief

Air Safety Week, Jan 28, 2008

Attendees at the 13th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology in New Orleans last week heard about a better way to forecast clear- air turbulence, based on "spontaneous imbalance theory." The new technique is more consistently successful than current methods, and improves on an earlier method developed by meteorologist Donald McCann.

He and his team of weather researchers have developed algorithms to reliably predict turbulence in the upper levels. His expositions are to be found at: tinyurl.com/2wngrf