| Abstract -- 
            
              Modern aircraft can operate in virtually all kinds of weather, but 
              unpredicted severe conditions, such as wind shear or heavy icing, 
              can prove deadly. Furthermore, the environmental situations within 
              and in the vicinity of air fields affect the operation deeply. Therefore, 
              an understanding and timely monitoring of weather conditions is 
              required for safe operation of aircraft. In this project, influences 
              of typhoon related severe weather on civil air transportation are 
              investigated, analyzed, and studied through data analysis and numerical 
              simulation. Our major goal is in twofold, on is to document the 
              historical events and learning the key issues of them, the second 
              one is to establish a useful procedure method for severe weather 
              forecast. In this first year report some climatological data and 
              case studies are presented.  
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