Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g. – Radar for meteorological use
Reexamination Certificate
2011-07-19
2011-07-19
Tarcza, Thomas H (Department: 3662)
Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g.,
Radar for meteorological use
Reexamination Certificate
active
07982658
ABSTRACT:
Dynamic weather model systems and methods are operable to assess weather in proximity to an airborne aircraft. An exemplary embodiment receives a radar return from the weather, determines reflectivity information from the received radar return, retrieves a weather model from a weather model data base, compares the weather with the retrieved weather model and the determined reflectivity information, predicts a characteristic of the weather based upon the comparison of the weather and the weather model, and determines if the predicted characteristic is potentially hazardous to the airborne aircraft. The weather model is defined by at least one weather modeling algorithm, and is defined by at least one of a parameter and a variable parameter range residing in a weather characteristics database.
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