METAR in IWXXM MeteoSwiss 1.0
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Abstract

The service provides the latest METAR reports in IWXXM for Swiss aerodromes in compliance with ICAO Annex 3. The retrieval of information will be done on a regular basis (subscription) via AMQP 1.0 whereby the message contains the whole IWXXM dataset.

Service Type
SWIM_COMPLIANT
Life Cycle
OPERATIONAL
Business Activity Type
AERODROME_OPERATION
AIRSPACE_ORGANISATION_AND_MANAGEMENT
INFORMATION_MANAGEMENT
SERVICE_DELIVERY_MANAGEMENT
Intended Consumer
AIR_TRAFFIC_SERVICE_PROVIDER
AIRPORT_OPERATOR
AIRSIDE_GROUND_HANDLER
CIVIL_AIR_NAVIGATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
CIVIL_AIRSPACE_USER
MILITARY_AIR_NAVIGATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
MILITARY_AIRSPACE_USER
REGULATED_METEOROLOGICAL_SERVICE_PROVIDER
Information Exchange Category
METEOROLOGICAL_INFORMATION_EXCHANGE
Application Message Exchange Pattern Entity
Publish/Subscribe with Push Mechanism
State ICAO Nationality Letters
LS
Geospatial Categorisation Description
The dataset is valid for Switzerland
Other
Service Type: METEOROLOGICAL_FEATURE_ACCESS_SERVICE
In-Operation Date
31-Dec-2025
Provider
MeteoSwiss

Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss

Provider Type
REGULATED_METEOROLOGICAL_SERVICE_PROVIDER
Point of Contact
Operational Needs

A list of operational needs that this service contributes to satisfying is available in Appendix B. This service satisfies these by offering meteorological information as regulated by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/373 of 1 March 2017 and ICAO Annex 3. The scope of the meteorological information satisfies the EU Implementing Regulation 2021/116 - Common Project One.

Information Exchange Requirements

IER 1 - The information currently included in the METAR as defined in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/373, ICAO Annex 3 Amdt 82 and PANS-MET.

Capabilities

The service provides high quality, up-to-date, trusted, regulated meteorological information in digital form for use by service consumers within the aviation domain.

Distribute Data

The service distributes the data according to the stored subscriptions and topics.

Subscribe to Data

The user is able to subscribe to data via AMQP while contacting MeteoSwiss customer support.

Customization

Within the given constraints the user can customize the service to individual needs if applicable. MeteoSwiss provides the service delivery from begin to the end of the subscription. If no start time is given, the subscription will be processed immediately. If no end time is given the subscription will be processed infinitely or up to the time when the service reaches the lifecycle status 'retired'.

Information Retainment

According to ICAO Annex 3 the meteorological information is retained for a period of at least 30 days from the date of issue. This relates to the information itself and not the request time of the customer.

Subscription

Consumers needs to subscribe for the service by contacting the MeteoSwiss before data can be received.

Signature

The requested information may contain a signature using SHA256.

Performance

operational with provisional quality (benchmarking phase)

Reliability

operational with provisional quality (benchmarking phase)

Security

operational with provisional quality (benchmarking phase)

AIRM

ATM Information Reference Model

AMQP

Advanced Queueing Message Protocol

ATC

Air Traffic Control

ATM

Air Traffic Management

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

ICAO

International Civil Aviation Organization

IER

Information Exchange Requirement

IR

Implementation Rules

ISRM

Information Service Reference Model

IWXXM

ICAO Meteorological Information Exchange Model

METAR

Meteorological Aerodrome Report

MeteoSwiss

Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss

NWS

National Weather Service

OGC

Open Geospatial Consortium

PCP

Pilot Common Project

WFS

Web Feature Service

WMO

World Meteorological Organization

SIGMET

significant meteorological phenomena

TAF

Terminal Aerodrome Forecast

Information
Filtering Capabilities

Products will be provided in a dedicated customer queue therefore filtering will not be required.

The service provider ensures that the data offered within this service is created by MeteoSwiss, a REGULATED_METEOROLOGICAL_SERVICE_PROVIDER
AMQP New Data Event

Every time there is new data available the consumer gets the requested data delivered in an AMQP message to the customer's AMQP queue or topic.

References
AMQP

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol.

Revision Save Date
Tue, 12/23/2025 - 08:37
Schema version
v2