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 ANC
Background (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 9 audits Total 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
Planning and preparation 2017 July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Formation of Development of audit procedures and reporting templates IPT-SWeISS Addition of ICAO SG to TT-AVI team Established support by WMO SG composition logistical OPAG-ISS ET- listing the and tasking 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 reviewed
Execution and reporting 2018 Jan Feb Mar Apr South Africa (24 th -25 th ) WMO final report to ICAO (30 th March) China (29 th -30 th ) Japan (1 st -2 nd ) PECASUS (12 th -14 th and 16 th ) France (15 th -16 th ) ICAO METP/3 (26 th -27 th April) Russian Federation (19 th -20 th ) WP/02 IP/02 Australia (21 st -22 nd ) IP/03 Canada (27 th -28 th ) United States of America (13 th -14 th )
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 observation
Institutional Operational Listed in alphabetical order by State/consortium 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 A A A A Space Weather Services (SWS), Sydney Canada, 27 and 28 February 2018 A /B A A /B A Canadian Space Weather Forecast Centre (CSWFC), Ottawa China, 29 and 30 January 2018 A A A A National Centre for Space Weather (NCSW), Beijing France, 15 and 16 February 2018 A /B A A /B A SPECTRA consortium, Toulouse Japan, 1 and 2 February 2018 A A A A Space Environment Laboratory (SEL), Tokyo PECASUS, 12 to 14 and 16 February 2018 A A A A PECASUS consortium, multiple locations Russian Federation, 19 and 20 February 2018 A /B A /B A A Institute of Applied Geophysics (IAG), Moscow South Africa, 24 and 25 January 2018 A /B A /B A /B A South African National Space Agency (SANSA), Hermanus United States, 13 and 14 March 2018 A /B A A A Space Weather Prediction Centre (SWPC), Boulder
Recommendation 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, Note. ― It is the sole responsibility of ICAO to decide whether or the Netherlands, Poland and the United Kingdom 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 correspondence
Concluding 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 report
Next 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 2018
Acknowledgements
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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