SatCAT: Using satellite data to improve safety and routing efficiency in the aviation industry.

乱流是商业航空运输的一个重要安全考虑因素：由乱流导致的坠机事件极其罕见，但乘客和机组人员受伤的情况每周都会发生。它经常会在没有警告的情况下袭击，特别是很难检测到的“晴空乱流”，这意味着安全带标志可能会被关闭，人们将在机舱内走动。在这种情况下，人们可能会从地上摔下来，在这个过程中受伤，任何松散的物品(如笔记本电脑)都可能成为危险的项目。因此，航空公司和飞行员规划的航线要避开潜在的颠簸区域，一旦进入空中，如果他们怀疑前方有严重颠簸，就会随时改变航线。然而，这取决于是否有足够的警告：如果你不知道湍流的存在，就不可能避免它。天气预报提供湍流警告，但这些警告往往不准确--在不存在的地方显示湍流，或者在确实存在的时候未能预测湍流。同样，从驾驶舱探测到湍流也非常困难。晴朗的空气湍流是看不见的，与风暴相关的湍流很难破译。一个特别的挑战是计算出一架飞机需要在多大程度上避开暴风云才能保持远离湍流。在这个联谊会中，我的目标是增加我们对湍流的知识，以帮助为飞行员提供如何避免风暴湍流的新指导。我将发明一种新的方法，利用最新的气象卫星技术检测来自太空的湍流，从而实现更好的飞行计划，并帮助航空公司避免湍流：通过减少对不存在的湍流进行不必要的飞行计划更改的需要，确保乘客的安全并节省资金。通过与英国气象局和雷丁大学的天气预报专家合作，我将寻求提高我们预测湍流的能力，使航空公司不仅可以避免飞行中的湍流，还可以在起飞前更好地提前规划无湍流航线。

Turbulence is an important safety consideration for commercial air transport: Crashes caused by turbulence are exceedingly rare, but injuries to passengers and crew are a weekly occurrence. It can often strike without warning, particularly "clear air turbulence" that is very difficult to detect, meaning that the seat belt sign may be switched off and people will be moving about the cabin. In this situation, people can be thrown off their feet, injuring themselves in the process, and any loose items (such as laptops) can become hazardous projectiles.Airlines and pilots therefore plan routes that avoid potential areas of turbulence and - once in the air - will alter course whenever possible if they suspect severe turbulence is ahead. This, however, relies on adequate warning being available: It is impossible to avoid turbulence if you do not know it is there. Weather forecasts provide turbulence warnings, but these are often inaccurate - showing turbulence where none exists or failing to forecast turbulence when it does exist. Similarly, it is very hard to detect turbulence from the cockpit. Clear air turbulence is invisible and storm-associated turbulence is hard to decipher. A particular challenge is to work out by how far an aircraft needs to avoid storm clouds in order to remain clear of turbulence.In this fellowship, I aim to increase our knowledge of turbulence in order to help to provide new guidance to pilots on how to avoid storm turbulence. I will produce a new method that will detect turbulence from space using the latest weather satellite technology, enabling better flight planning and helping airlines to avoid turbulence: Keeping their passengers safe and saving money by reducing the need for unnecessary flight plan changes around non-existent turbulence. By working with weather forecasting experts at the Met Office and University of Reading I will seek to improve our ability to forecast turbulence, allowing airlines not only to avoid turbulence in-flight but also to allow better advance planning of turbulence-free routes before take-off.