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Airport Management Council of Ontario (AMCO) 2011 Annual Convention October 2 nd to 4 th Brantford, ON. Pelmorex/The Weather Network. Canada’s largest independent provider of weather information Television Interactive Services (Mobile, Web, Desktop) Commercial Clients
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Airport Management Council of Ontario (AMCO) 2011 Annual Convention October 2nd to 4th Brantford, ON
Pelmorex/The Weather Network • Canada’s largest independent provider of weather information • Television • Interactive Services (Mobile, Web, Desktop) • Commercial Clients • Canada’s largest private sector meteorological team • Provide complete weather solutions for a variety of commercial & industrial clients • Transportation • Energy • Operations centers are 24/7/365 in order to provide round-the-clock dedicated services to our customers
Airport Operations Services Core Services • Local Area Forecasts • Real Time Lightning • RWIS Supporting Services
Services Benefit • Effective chemical management - reduce chemical use • Proactive planning of maintenance activities • Lower cost of operations • Improve safety
Local Area Forecast • Highly flexible general weather forecast product available in multiple formats • Uses data from 10km x 10km forecast grids across Canada • Environment Canada weather warnings/watches • Forecast increments include 1-hour, 3-hour, 6-hour, 12-hour, and 24-hour time frames • Forecast windows of 1 out to 15 days available • Rapidly updatable
Division of airports into two groups: • Use urea • Non-scheduled • Let us demonstrate maintenance tools used by transportation agencies • Use potasium acetate • Scheduled flights • 4000’ with corporate traffic • Owned by municipality • Tools to save you money and provide more control of winter maintenance operations.
Runway Weather Information System (RWIS) • Atmospheric observational weather data • Runway surface condition • Runway surface forecast
RWIS Forecast Surface Ice Warning
Lightning Alerts • Configurable based on client requirements • Alerts send via email and text • Alerts audible and visual • All clear alert
Radar Overview Ability to select road or aerial view Pan/Zoom functionality Current pre-defined image selected Playback controls Current image date/time Precipitation Type/Intensity Ability to control timing of images Ability to select data layers
Radar Examples Mixed Precipitation (possible freezing rain) Thunderstorms
Airport Clients • Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) • Aéroports du Montréal (Dorval & Mirabel) • Toronto Billy Bishop – Toronto Port Authority • Oshawa Municipal Airport • Salt Lake City International Airport
Contact Information: Robert Boggs, Manager Industrial Sales rboggs@pelmorex.com Office: (905) 829-1159 x1424 Mobile: (647) 405-6121 Sean Pinney, Senior Manager Commercial Services spinney@pelmorex.com Office: (905) 829-1159 x1266 Mobile: (416) 312-7515