JAWS - Juneau Airport Wind System
Scope and Contents
This series contains records of several of RAL's field projects. Records include planning documents, data, photographs, correspondence, and reports. The series is organized by project.
Dates
- Creation: 1960 - 2015
Conditions Governing Access
Not all of the material in this collection is in the public domain. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine copyright and obtain permission to use materials.
All records must be viewed in the Archives. The Archives does not have playback capability for some materials.
Biographical / Historical
This project involved the development and implementation of sensing systems and turbulence alerting software. The team needed to identify best placement of weather profiling stations in order to pinpoint areas of greatest turbulence, then design, build and maintain the sensor sites that provided information about wind speed, wind direction, air temperature, etc. In 1997, NCAR began the development of the Juneau Airport Wind System (JAWS) with the goals of improving flight operational safety and safe access to the airport. JAWS was fully tested and put into operational use by the FAA in 2012.
Full Extent
From the Collection: 28 Boxes : 25 record cartons, 2 letter-size archival boxes,1 archival film reel box
Language of Materials
English
Repository Details
Part of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Archives Repository