New Developments

New Developments

Observatory's Officer Elected Vice-president of Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology of the World Meteorological Organization (Dec 2006)
The second LIDAR installed (Dec 2006)
Direct Dialogues with Pilots (Dec 2006)
The World's First LIDAR Windshear Alerting System (LIWAS) (Jun 2006)
First trial of windshear uplink to cockpit in Hong Kong (Jun 2006)
Hong Kong Observatory's Windshear System (Jun 2006)
Exchanging Windshear Experience Aloft (Jun 2006)
LIDAR Alerting of Sporadic Windshear (Jun 2006)
Hide and Seek with Fog (Jun 2006)
Coordination with Air Traffic Management − contributing towards the enhancement of air safety and efficiency (Jun 2006)
Meteorological experts met in Hong Kong in Pursuit of Quality Aviation Weather Service (Dec 2005)
New Edition of Windshear Booklet is Now Available (Dec 2005)
Operational Use of Automatic LIDAR Windshear Alerts (Dec 2005)
World-first application of AMDAR observations for windshear reporting (Dec 2005)
ICAO Regional Meetings (Dec 2005)
Joint Windshear Paper with Airline (Dec 2005)
More Weather Information for Local Aviation (Jun 2005)
Contributing Towards the Development of Worldwide Aviation Standards (Jun 2005)
Fostering a World System (Jun 2005)
Doppler LIDAR as Wake Vortex Sensor (Jun 2005)
Popular Science Lecture on Windshear (Jun 2005)
The Observatory's Windshear Work Further Recognized (Feb 2005)
Airlines' Feedback on New Weather Charts (Feb 2005)
Hong Kong Meteorologist Completed Consultancy for ICAO (Feb 2005)
More Specific Windshear Information on ATIS (Feb 2005)
Survey on New Significant Weather Charts for Flight Documentation (Dec 2004)
Aviation Meteorology Training for the World (Dec 2004)
The Observatory's Quality Management System - Showcase to the World (Dec 2004)
Hong Kong Observatory introduces customized SIGWX charts (Sep 2004)
Trial Service on Warnings via SMS (Sep 2004)
LIDAR put into operational use (Jul 2004)
New weather charts ready to be launched (Jul 2004)
New ground reception system of high resolution satellites installed (Jul 2004)
AWARE – A new windshear detection algorithm (May 2004)
Look before you leave (May 2004)
Survey on Pilots' Requirements on Meteorological Information Uplink (Apr 2004)
New Windshear Alerting Language Put into Use (Apr 2004)
IFATCA Conference 2004 (Mar 2004)
Popular Science Lectures on "Weather and Recreational Aviation Sports" (Mar 2004)
Two new weather buoys launched (Feb 2004)
Meteorological Information Downlink and Uplink (Feb 2004)
Weather information for aviation sports (Dec 2003)
Public finds radar image useful (Oct 2003)
Vitual tour to the Observatory Lidar (Sep 2003)
New windshear wording put on trial (Jun 2003)
Instant weather report from aircraft (Jun 2003)
Weather buoys of the Hong Kong Observatory (Feb 2003)
The Hong Kong Observatory announces the launch of the world's first web site on the global official city weather forecast (Dec 2002)
Satellite Image Gallery (Nov 2002)
World's first LIDAR for weather alerting at Hong Kong Airport (Nov 2002)