ICAO Meteorology Panel
The MET - P had a two - week meeting at ICAO to work on data standards for weather
dissemination, Space Weathe r Centers, Regional Hazardous Weather Warning Center,
and Radiation Sigmets. One of the issues that IFATCA, IFALPA, and IATA have been
pushing on the global scene is the need to transition to phenomenon base d weather
advisories and get away from FIR (flig ht information region) . I n the U . S . we already do
this between our FIRs but we still do not cross the boundaries of other non - U . S . FIRs.
The goal is to have a sigmet or Advisory cover the entire weather phenomena instead of
the warning ending at a geopolitical boundary.
The panel was tasked by the Air Navigation Commission to determine the optimal
numb er of space weather centers that would provide advisories for aviation. Currently
there approxi mately 17 countries that have space weather centers but this doesn ' t mean
they can produce an aviation advisory. The panel agreed to two global centers that
woul d work hand - in - hand to produce global products and four regional centers that
would support the two global centers. The advisories that would be produced would be
for flight crew exposure, GNSS impacts, and frequency or communication impacts.
