weather in uam - nasa

Weather in UAMIan Levitt, Principal EngineerATM-X UAM Airspace Subproject

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ATM-X UAM Airspace Subproject Perspective

Airspace is ready when the Vehicle is ready

Wx-related Challenges to the UAM System

• Highly impacted by localized conditions

• Difficulty of real-time data distribution

• Need for common operating picture

• Understanding operational impacts

• Ability to simulate UAM operations

Weather impacts entire UAM System Architecture- Vehicle Performance- Weather-related services- Weather-impacted services

ATM-X UAM Subproject Current Contributions

NASA Phase III SBIR, AvMet Applications

• Wx data ingestion to simulation environment

• Wx research– UAM system Wx impact matrix

– Ride quality metric

– Wx data sources and resolutions survey

• Prototype services– Wx/Noise Optimal guidance

– 4D weather severity grid

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Potential Airspace Services

Fleet ManagementFlow ManagementSchedulingWx-Optimized Flight Planning

Tactical re-routes around weather

Weather-impacted decision-making

Weather-related contingencies

Gaps in the Research and Production Pipeline

Gaps lead to Faults

Research Production

Weather Integrationearly and often can

bring benefitsthroughout the

lifecycle