Aviation Weather Handbook FAA-H-8083-28
This handbook describes the United States (U.S.) aviation weather program, products, and services. It also documents weather theory and its application to aviation. The objective of this handbook is to help the pilot and operator understand the basics of weather, aviation weather hazards, and aviati...
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Federal Aviation Administration
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notice
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Aviation Weather Services Program and Information
- Chapter 3. Overview of Aviation Weather Information
- Chapter 4. The Earth's Atmosphere
- Chapter 5. Heat and Temperature
- Chapter 6. Water Vapor
- Chapter 7. Earth-Atmosphere Heat Imbalances
- Chapter 8. Atmospheric Pressure and Altimetry
- Chapter 9. Global Circulations and Jet Streams
- Chapter 10. Wind
- Chapter 11. Air Masses, Fronts, and the Wave Cyclone Model
- Chapter 12. Vertical Motion and Clouds
- Chapter 13. Atmospheric Stability
- Chapter 14. Precipitation
- Chapter 15. Weather Radar
- Chapter 16. Moutain Weather
- Chapter 17. Tropical Weather
- Chapter 18. Weather and Obstructions to Visibility
- Chapter 19. Turbulence
- Chapter 20. Icing
- Chapter 21. Arctic Weather
- Chapter 22. Thunderstorms
- Chapter 23. Space Weather
- Chapter 24. Observations
- Chapter 25. Analysis
- Chapter 26. Advisories
- Chapter 27. Forecasts
- Chapter 28. Aviation Weather Tools
- Appendix A. Cloud Types
- Appendix B. Standard Conversion Chart
- Appendix C. Density Altiitude Calculation
- Appendix D. Special Terminal Operation Procedures (STOP) for Operations in Noncontiguous State
- Appendix E. Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms
- Appendix F. Units of Measurement
- Appendix G. Websites