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Establishment of ICAO requirements for Space Weather

Establishment of ICAO requirements for Space Weather. Greg Brock Acting Chief, Meteorology Section ICAO Headquarters, Montreal 17 May 2011 WMO Cg-XVI Side Event – Global Preparedness for Space Weather Hazards. Contents. Background Recent progress Future activities. Background.

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Establishment of ICAO requirements for Space Weather

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  1. Establishment of ICAO requirements for Space Weather Greg Brock Acting Chief, Meteorology Section ICAO Headquarters, Montreal 17 May 2011 WMO Cg-XVI Side Event – Global Preparedness for Space Weather Hazards

  2. Contents • Background • Recent progress • Future activities ICAO requirements for Space Weather – WMO Cg XVI Side Event – 17 May 2011

  3. Background • Year 2000: New air trans-polar routes opened up between North America and East Asia • Later: Polar routes across the South Pole • Today: Approx 8000 trans- or cross-polar routes per year (N and S Poles) • Polar trajectories are more cost effective for airlines • Shorter, more direct, long-haul routes • saving fuel and minimising environmental impact • …and more convenient for passengers • Less time in the air ICAO requirements for Space Weather – WMO Cg XVI Side Event – 17 May 2011

  4. Background • Recognition that aircraft operating on high latitude polar routes could be exposed to hazardous levels of solar radiation that could affect crew and passenger health, communications, navigation and avionics • Recommendation that an assessment be conducted of the need for the provision of information for international air navigation on solar radiation storms and other bio-hazards IAVW Operations Group (2004 – present) Conclusions 1/33, 3/31, 4/29, 5/18 and 5/19 Deliverable IAVWOPSG-09 ICAO MET Divisional Meeting (2002) Recommendation 1/20c) ANC ICAO requirements for Space Weather – WMO Cg XVI Side Event – 17 May 2011

  5. Recent progress IAVWOPSG Conclusion 4/29 IAVWOPSG Conclusion 5/19 Development of [ICAO] requirements for Space Weather Drafting of operational requirements and associated guidance material Development of milestones for the development and roll-out of a Space Weather service for international air navigation 7 States, IATA, IFALPA, IFATCA, in coordination with ICAO and WMO • Development of guidance material on space weather with emphasis on the description of the impact of space weather on international air navigation • 4 States plus WMO • Now available at: http://www2.icao.int/en/ anb/met-aim/met/iavwopsg/ Pages/default.aspx ICAO requirements for Space Weather – WMO Cg XVI Side Event – 17 May 2011

  6. Future activities • IAVWOPSG/6 (September 2011, Dakar) • Review and discuss follow-up to Conclusion 5/19: • Draft operational requirements • Draft guidance material • Roll-out plan/milestones for a space weather service • Consider next-steps with respect to: • SARPs, procedures • Space weather service • ICAO 12th Air Navigation Conference (2012) • ICAO MET/AIM Divisional Meeting (2014), conjoint with WMO CAeM ICAO requirements for Space Weather – WMO Cg XVI Side Event – 17 May 2011

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