DALLAS: city NE Tex. E of Fort Worth (Webster's)

Performance Evaluation of a Surface Traffic Management Tool for Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

This paper presents detailed results from a highfidelity human-in-the-loop evaluation of an airport surface decision support tool. The Spot And Runway Departure Advisor is designed to aid controllers in managing aircraft surface operations and is based on two optimization algorithms: the Spot Release Planner and the Runway Scheduler. The Spot Release Planner provides sequence and timing advisor...

Prediction and Control of Departure Runway Balancing at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport

At many airports, aircraft take off from multiple departure runways. During periods of high departure demand, whether or not the departure runways are balanced directly affects the capacity and efficiency of the airport. This paper begins by investigating the cause of runway imbalances. Homogeneity in the direction of flight during a departure push and the procedures for runway assignments are ...

Normal Polarity Severe Thunderstorms Dominated by Negative Cg Lightning in the Dallas-fort worth Area

BACKGROUND Since the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) became fully operational in 1989, meteorologists have spent considerable time trying to identify cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning characteristics that are uniquely associated with severe weather. Many studies focused on the dominant CG lightning polarity as a potential indicator of severe weather. Knapp (1994) found that 39% of...

Dallas-Fort Worth earthquakes coincident with activity associated with natural gas production

O 31 October 2008 and the following day, numerous Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) residents called 911 to report experiencing several small earthquakes, accompanied by loud booming noises and the shaking of walls and furniture. Using data recorded by regional seismic stations, the USGS National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) located nine earthquakes with magnitudes between 2.5 and 3.0. On 16 May ...

Urban Bobcat (Lynx rufus) Ecology in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Metroplex