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International Civil Aviation Organization
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
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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
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Background
ICAO MET Divisional Meeting
(2002)
Recommendation 1/20c)
IAVW Operations Group
(2004 – present)
ANC
Conclusions 1/33, 3/31, 4/29,
5/18 and 5/19
Deliverable IAVWOPSG-09
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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
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Recent progress
IAVWOPSG Conclusion 4/29
IAVWOPSG Conclusion 5/19
• 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:
• Development of [ICAO]
requirements for Space Weather
http://www2.icao.int/en/ anb/metaim/met/iavwopsg/
Pages/default.aspx
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– 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
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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• Draft guidance material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
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