Credit: (Image courtesy Research Applications Laboratory, NCAR)
NCAR's NEXRAD turbulence detection algorithm (NTDA) generates real-time maps of in-cloud turbulence to alert airline meteorologists and dispatchers to potentially dangerous areas of rough air. This map, generated by the system during early testing in 2005, shows areas of moderate and severe turbulence in the Midwest, as well as automated reports of turbulence detected by aircraft in flight (colored dots).