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Ad-hoc Task Team on Space weather
Information Service for Aviation (TT-AVI)
Site assessment and audit of prospective space
weather information providers
Second meeting of the Inter-Programme Team on
Space Weather Information, Systems and Services
(IPT-SWeISS/2)
21 to 23 May 2018, Tokyo, Japan
Daniele Biron, Italy
IPT-SWeISS Member and
Team Leader of TT-AVI
Content • Background • Planning and preparation, execution and reporting • High-level summary of findings • Recommendation to ICAO • Concluding remarks • Next steps • Acknowledgements
Background
Background (I)
Intersessional
2002 2014
period
MET Divisional Meeting Progress by: MET Divisional Meeting
Recommendation 1/20: Recommendation 2/7:
[ICAO] International
(Inter alia) To assess the Airways Volcano Watch Development of
need for providing Operations Group provisions for
information for (IAVWOPSG) information concerning
international air space weather
navigation on solar [WMO] Inter-
radiation storms and Commission Team on
other bio-hazards Space Weather (ICTSW)
2015
METP established by ANCBackground (II)
2016 2017
METP/2 (October 2016): [WMO] Transition from ANC reviewed/approved
ICTSW to Inter-Programme METP/2 recs (March 2017)
Rec. 4/3 – Draft Team on Space Weather
Amendment 78 to Annex 3 Information, Systems and Official correspondence
Services (IPT-SWeISS) ICAO SG to WMO SG (May)
Rec. 4/4 – Guidance on the
process for selecting space IPT-SWeISS/1 (June 2017) ICAO consultation with
weather information established ad hoc Task States as prospective space
providers Team on Aviation (TT-AVI) weather information
providers (June to
Rec. 4/5 – WMO support to Supported by [WMO] September 2017)
the development of a OPAG-ISS Expert Team on
report on meeting criteria Centre Audit/Certification Official correspondence
to provide space weather (ET-CAC) (September 2017 ICAO SG to WMO SG
information onwards) (October 2017)Background (III)
The following States expressed an interest in providing a space weather information service:
United States
Argentina Brazil Cyprus Italy Poland
of America
Russian
Australia Canada Finland Japan Venezuela
Federation
Austria Chile France Netherlands South Africa
United
Belgium China Germany Philippines
Kingdom
Total 9 audits
conducted
Key: Requested to be audited (as State) 8 in total
Requested to be audited (as consortium*) 1
Withdrew request to be audited 1
Requested to not be audited 4
* Pan-European Consortium of Aviation Space weather User Services (PECASUS)Planning and preparation, execution and reporting
2017 Planning and preparation
July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec
Formation of Development of audit procedures and reporting templates
IPT-SWeISS
TT-AVI team Addition of ICAO SG to Established
composition support by WMO SG logistical
and tasking OPAG-ISS ET- listing the arrangements
CAC experts prospective and provisional
providers to audit schedule
be audited in consultation
with focal
Established points of
liaison with contact
focal points
of contact in
each State
and the
consortium
Self-assessment questionnaire created, completed
and reviewed2018 Execution and reporting
Jan Feb Mar Apr
South Africa (24th-25th) WMO final report to
ICAO (30th March)
China (29th-30th)
Japan (1st-2nd)
PECASUS
(12th-14th
and 16th)
France (15th-16th) ICAO METP/3
(26th-27th April)
Russian Federation
(19th-20th) WP/02
IP/02
Australia (21st-22nd)
IP/03
Canada (27th-28th)
United States of
America (13th-14th)High-level summary of findings
Where:
A = Compliant at time of observation
B = Compliant but with qualification at time of observation
C = Not compliant at time of observationListed in alphabetical order by State/consortium
Institutional
Operational
Technical
Comms /
Dissem.
Majority compliance ratings are indicated in large font (e.g. A)
Minority compliance ratings are indicated in small font (e.g. B)
Australia, 21 and 22 February 2018
Space Weather Services (SWS), Sydney A A A A
Canada, 27 and 28 February 2018
Canadian Space Weather Forecast Centre (CSWFC), Ottawa A/B A A/B A
China, 29 and 30 January 2018
National Centre for Space Weather (NCSW), Beijing A A A A
France, 15 and 16 February 2018
SPECTRA consortium, Toulouse A/B A A/B A
Japan, 1 and 2 February 2018
Space Environment Laboratory (SEL), Tokyo A A A A
PECASUS, 12 to 14 and 16 February 2018
PECASUS consortium, multiple locations A A A A
Russian Federation, 19 and 20 February 2018
Institute of Applied Geophysics (IAG), Moscow A/B A/B A A
South Africa, 24 and 25 January 2018
South African National Space Agency (SANSA), Hermanus A/B A/B A/B A
United States, 13 and 14 March 2018
Space Weather Prediction Centre (SWPC), Boulder A/B A A ARecommendation to ICAO
Recommendation to ICAO
Overall recommendation on the compliance (at the time of observation and against
the ICAO-defined criteria) of the prospective space weather information providers:
COMPLIANT BUT
COMPLIANT NOT COMPLIANT
WITH QUALIFICATION
Australia South Africa [None]
Canada
China
France
Japan
PECASUS*
Russian Federation
United States of America
* Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, Germany, Italy,
the Netherlands, Poland and the United Kingdom Note. ― It is the sole responsibility of ICAO to decide whether or
not to take the WMO findings presented in this report into
account during its (ICAO’s) designation of the space weather
information provider(s) that will serve international civil aviation.Concluding remarks
Concluding remarks (I)
• Activity completed within the timescale
prescribed by ICAO.
• Activity conducted in accordance with the
guidance given by ICAO.
• Significant undertaking for WMO and the
subject matter experts involved
– No extra-budgetary resources were used by WMO
– No face-to-face meetings were held. All matters
handled via teleconference and correspondenceConcluding remarks (II) • WMO was not requested by ICAO to ascertain the global and/or regional intentions of the prospective SWx information providers • WMO developed ‘acceptable means of compliance’ against each of the ICAO criteria • Audit procedures, reporting templates, working methodology and schedule were all developed from scratch
Concluding remarks (III)
• Post-audit debriefings amongst the WMO audit
team members were conducted
– Share experiences, lessons learned, etc.
• Differentiation between demonstrating capability
at the time of the audit versus perceiving to have
the capability at the time when the ICAO Annex 3
provisions will become applicable
– Reflected in the compliance ratings and supporting
commentary in each reportNext steps
Next steps
• ICAO Meteorology Panel (METP/3) held 26-27 April 2018,
Montreal Done
– Reviewed and endorsed the WMO audit report and the process
used to plan, prepare, conduct and report on the site
assessments and audits
• ICAO Air Navigation Commission review of the METP/3
report in May/June 2018 and recommendation to ICAO
Council
• WMO IPT-SWeISS/2, 21-23 May 2018
– Review progress report on the activities of TT-AVI to IPT-SWeISS
• ICAO Council designation of space weather information
providers in September/October 2018
• Operational space weather service in November 2018Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
• The planning, preparing, conducting and reporting of
the site assessments and audits would not have been
possible without the in-kind contribution of the
following countries (and their associated experts
involved in TT-AVI and ET-CAC):
Argentina (Sergio DASSO) Italy (Daniele BIRON)
Australia (Bryan BOASE and Weiqing QU) Japan (Mamoru ISHII)
Austria (Gerold FLETZER) Morocco (Fatima Zahra BENSAID)
France (Nicole VILMER) New Zealand (Kevin ALDER and
Shane BIDOIS)
Germany (Jens BERDERMANN, Republic of Korea (Jangsuk CHOI)
Thorsten BUESSELBERG and Lothar WOLF)
• TT-AVI and ET-CAC wish to thank Greg Brock from
WMO Secretariat for all the support offered us.Proposed action
Proposed action De facto, TT-AVI has concluded its mandate with WMO final report to ICAO on the outcomes of the site assessments and audits (March 2018). TT-AVI leader attended METP/3, 26 and 27 April 2018 at ICAO Headquarter in Montreal (Canada), and no further effort is foreseeable. It could be considered anyway useful to keep alive the TT-AVI up to IPT-SWeISS-3 (2019), frozen but ready to go online in brief if needed by WMO Secretariat and with the approval of IPT-SWeISS Chair.
Proposed action It is proposed to silence any type of activity for TT-AVI, leaving its members returning participate actively to the others IPT-SWeISS Task Teams, with the exception of one member that will maintain the duty of TT-AVI rapporteur up to IPT-SWeISS-3 (2019). The rapporteur will maintain the supporting role to the WMO Aeronautical Meteorology Division if needed, as done during the audit phase.
Proposed action The TT-AVI rapporteur will follow the activation of ICAO SW information services and will send a report to the IPT-SWeISS-3 (2019) on the first months of SW services towards aviation. During IPT-SWeISS-3 (2019) meeting TT-AVI will be eventually resolved. IPT-SWeISS is invited to comment on the proposed action: to maintain TT-AVI alive up to IPT-SWeISS-3 (2019) leaving one of the TT-AVI members being rapporteur in the coming months.
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