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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)

2002 Intersessional period 2014

MET Divisional Meeting Recommendation 1/20: (Inter alia) To assess the need for providing information for international air navigation on solar radiation storms and

• ther bio-hazards

Progress by: [ICAO] International Airways Volcano Watch Operations Group (IAVWOPSG) [WMO] Inter- Commission Team on Space Weather (ICTSW) MET Divisional Meeting Recommendation 2/7: Development of provisions for information concerning space weather

2015

METP established by ANC

Background (II)

2016 2017

METP/2 (October 2016):

• Rec. 4/3 – Draft

Amendment 78 to Annex 3

• Rec. 4/4 – Guidance on the

process for selecting space weather information providers

• Rec. 4/5 – WMO support to

the development of a report on meeting criteria to provide space weather information [WMO] Transition from ICTSW to Inter-Programme Team on Space Weather Information, Systems and Services (IPT-SWeISS) IPT-SWeISS/1 (June 2017) established ad hoc Task Team on Aviation (TT-AVI) Supported by [WMO] OPAG-ISS Expert Team on Centre Audit/Certification (ET-CAC) (September 2017

• nwards)

ANC reviewed/approved METP/2 recs (March 2017) Official correspondence ICAO SG to WMO SG (May) ICAO consultation with States as prospective space weather information providers (June to September 2017) Official correspondence ICAO SG to WMO SG (October 2017)

Background (III)

Argentina Brazil Cyprus Italy Poland United States

• f America

Australia Canada Finland Japan Russian Federation Venezuela Austria Chile France Netherlands South Africa Belgium China Germany Philippines United Kingdom Requested to be audited (as State) 8 Requested to be audited (as consortium*) 1 Withdrew request to be audited 1 Requested to not be audited 4 Key: Total 9 audits conducted in total

* Pan-European Consortium of Aviation Space weather User Services (PECASUS)

The following States expressed an interest in providing a space weather information service:

Planning and preparation, execution and reporting

Planning and preparation

July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec

2017

Formation of IPT-SWeISS TT-AVI team composition and tasking Development of audit procedures and reporting templates Addition of support by OPAG-ISS ET- CAC experts ICAO SG to WMO SG listing the prospective providers to be audited Established liaison with focal points

• f contact in

each State and the consortium Self-assessment questionnaire created, completed and reviewed Established logistical arrangements and provisional audit schedule in consultation with focal points of contact

Execution and reporting

Jan Feb Mar Apr

2018

South Africa (24th-25th) China (29th-30th) Japan (1st-2nd) PECASUS (12th-14th and 16th) France (15th-16th) Russian Federation (19th-20th) Australia (21st-22nd) Canada (27th-28th) United States of America (13th-14th) WMO final report to ICAO (30th March) ICAO METP/3 (26th-27th April)

WP/02 IP/02 IP/03

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

Listed in alphabetical order by State/consortium

Majority compliance ratings are indicated in large font (e.g. A) Minority compliance ratings are indicated in small font (e.g. B)

Institutional Operational Technical Comms / Dissem. 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 A

Recommendation to ICAO

Recommendation to ICAO

COMPLIANT COMPLIANT BUT WITH QUALIFICATION NOT COMPLIANT

Australia South Africa [None] Canada China France Japan PECASUS* Russian Federation United States of America

• 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.

* Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and the United Kingdom

Overall recommendation on the compliance (at the time of observation and against the ICAO-defined criteria) of the prospective space weather information providers:

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, Thorsten BUESSELBERG and Lothar WOLF) Republic of Korea (Jangsuk CHOI)

• 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

• nline 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

• thers IPT-SWeISS Task Teams, with the exception of
• ne 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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