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Meteorologist at hidmet.gov.rs (RHMZ) | Weather Forecaster

🚨 The usual #caveat applies: always check ⚠ #official ⚠ briefing products for the #FIR you will be flying in. So #icing and #tubulence… Two big #hazards for #aviation. ✈ For icing 🧊 to occur, we need to have two #ingredients: 📉 #AirTemperature close to #freezing 🥶 or sub-freezing and 🚰 visible #moisture – either #clouds ☁ or #precipitation 🌧 . Icing can occur in a variety of ways: 🔺 freezing #drizzle 🔺 freezing #rain 🔺 #EngineIcing 🔺 icing of the #PitotTube 🔺 icing of the #StaticPressurePort. #Pilots should – and do – of course, consult the #WeatherOffice or #flight service station for a forecasing on expected #IcingConditions. On the right ➡ the #EllrodIndex. Accounts for #ClearAirTurbulence (#CAT) – does ❗ NOT ❗ account for low-level turbulence due to #thunderstorms, #mountain ranges. If > 9, 🟡 #moderate 🟡, and > 20, 🔴 #severe 🔴. #FreezingRain #FreezingDrizzle #FlightLevel #SigWX #WAFC #WAFCLondon #SigWX #AviationMeteorology #AeronauticalMeteorology #aeronautics #SIGMET #SignificantWeather #MetX #Meteomatics #EURO1k #WeatherVisualization #WeatherGraphics #NumericalModel #NumericalWeatherPrediction #NWP #HighResolution #WeatherChart #WeatherForecast #WeatherForecasting #AviationForecast #FlightInformationRegion #CivilAviation #foot #feet #hectofeet #altitude #altimeter #AltimeterSetting #MSLP

Clemens Weidemann

International Advisor Aeronautical Meteorology bei Deutscher Wetterdienst

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To be fair, Ellrod-Index seems quite outdated for aeronautical meteorology nowadays for the reasons you have mentioned. Eddy dissipation rate (EDR) has been established as standard by ICAO and used by WAFS, DWD even postprocesses the eddy dissipation parameter (EDP) which includes convective turbulence and is used for operational SIGMET preparation in the DACH-countries, Croatia and Slovenia (and is also used by many airlines)

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