The need to enhance the safety and efficiency of aviation systems has escalated with increasing aviation activity and competitiveness around the world. Weather, which is one of the principal factors affecting aviation performance, is acquiring ever more importance as aviation is poised to shift to futuristic paradigms such as free flight. Advanced systems and approaches to the surveillance of weather and the resultant generation of highly processed, detailed, accurate and reliable weather data, are becoming integral parts of support systems for navigation and air traffic management.

'Aviation Weather Surveillance Systems is an impressive achievement and is an important part of the armamentarium of not only personnel directly handling aviation meteorological functions, but also of pilots, air traffic controllers, airline managers, civil aviation system planners and regulators, accident investigators and indeed anyone with a serious interest in aviation. Beautifully printed and illustrated with figures, tables and graphs and colour plates, the material provided by the author will ensure that those needing information on all of the important scientific and technological aspects of the aviation weather surveillance problems, will readily locate it in this volume.'
-- Current Engineering Practice

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Basic background of aviation
• Chapter 3: Atmospheric effects on aviation
• Chapter 4: Origins of harmful atmospheric effects on aircraft
• Chapter 5: Requirements of systems for aviation weather surveillance
• Chapter 6: Doppler weather radar as a primary aviation weather sensor
• Chapter 7: Modern Doppler weather radars for aviation
• Chapter 8: Other sensors and systems for aviation weather
• Chapter 9: Integrated system approaches
• Chapter 10: Automatic detection and tracking of hazardous weather features
• Chapter 11: Atmospheric turbulence and its detection by radar
• Chapter 12: Lightning and aviation
• Chapter 13: Polarisation diversity radars