The Montreal VAAC Toolbox: When Every Second Counts

To consolidate all necessary forecasting and monitoring tasks by the Canadian Meteorological Centre into one place, a toolbox of software was created. It allows the shift supervisor on duty to monitor continuously various pilot reports or bulletins that may refer to volcanic ash, and to track volcanic ash clouds with satellite data. Utilization of the toolbox can allow the results of ash modeling to be posted quickly on the public Montreal Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre web site or to be transmitted on international and national communication circuits.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • These proceedings contain the abstract only of this presentation.
• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Coordinator, Meteorological Services & Support Research

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• Authors:
  • McCrady, Mark
  • Trudel, Serge
  • Gauthier, Jean-Philippe
  • Servranckx, Rene
• Conference:
  • 2nd International Conference on Volcanic Ash and Aviation Safety
  • Location: Alexandria, Virginia
  • Date: 2004-6-21 to 2004-6-24
• Publication Date: 2004-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Pagination: 1p
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Volcanic Ash and Aviation Safety, June 21-24, 2004, Alexandria, Virginia

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airline pilots; Aviation safety; Clouds; Forecasting; Monitoring; Software; Volcanic ash; Volcanic eruptions; Websites (Information retrieval)
• Identifier Terms: Canadian Meteorological Centre; Montreal Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre
• Uncontrolled Terms: Satellite imagery
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01001509
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 1 2005 8:22AM