The service provides access to the latest available TAF information in the IWXXM format from 5 Slovak airports. The data is supplied by certified MET service responsible for the meteorological support of each specific airport. The service complies with ICAO Annex 3 requirements and supports ICAO Doc 10157 PANS - MET.
Data can be retrieved using:
- Subscription (Publish/Subscribe) via AMQP 1.0, whereby the message contains the whole IWXXM dataset;
- Request/Reply via the OGC EDR API, where the IWXXM data is provided in replies, in a ZIP archive.
Categorisation
SERVICE_DESCRIPTION
OPERATIONAL
- AERODROME_OPERATION
- AIRSPACE_ORGANISATION_AND_MANAGEMENT
- INFORMATION_MANAGEMENT
- SERVICE_DELIVERY_MANAGEMENT
- AIR_TRAFFIC_SERVICE_PROVIDER
- AIRPORT_OPERATOR
- AIRSIDE_GROUND_HANDLER
- CIVIL_AIR_NAVIGATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
- CIVIL_AIRSPACE_USER
- COMMUNICATION_NAVIGATION_AND_SURVEILLANCE_SERVICE_PROVIDER
- MILITARY_AIR_NAVIGATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
- MILITARY_AIRSPACE_USER
- NETWORK_MANAGER
- REGULATED_METEOROLOGICAL_SERVICE_PROVIDER
- METEOROLOGICAL_INFORMATION_EXCHANGE
- Request/Reply
- Publish/Subscribe with Push Mechanism
The dataset corresponds to SHMU's area of responsibility as ANSP.
Provider
2025-12-31
SHMU
Slovak hydrometeorological institute - national MET ANSP provider
Slovak hydrometeorological institute is Slovak's national meteorological and hydrological service provider, a public sector institution and certified national ATM/ANS Service Provider under certificate 2020-SHMU/01.
- REGULATED_METEOROLOGICAL_SERVICE_PROVIDER
SHMU AMS
Restricted
Restricted
Operational Needs for SHMU AMS
The service is provided in accordance with ICAO Annex 3 Meteorological Service for International Air Navigation and ICAO Doc 10157 Procedures for Air Navigation Services - Meteorology (PANS - MET) published in November 2025. It complies with Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/373 (Annex V) and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/116 (Common Project One), as applicable in Slovakia under the Aviation Law Act.
By delivering meteorological information as required by ICAO and EU law, the service ensures full compliance with the international, European and national regulatory framework governing civil aviation in Slovakia.
Information Exchange Requirements
The information currently included in the TAF reports as defined in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/373, ICAO Annex 3 and ICAO 10157 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.
Information has been shared; the service consumer gets the requested data.
Request Data
The consumer is able to request the data using OGC EDR.
Information has been shared; the service consumer gets the requested data.
Subscribe to Data
The user is able to subscribe to data by contacting SHMU SWIM contact.
Subscription has been established, consumer will receive data matching the subscription.
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Time Behaviour
Under normal operations 90% of METAR messages will be delivered within 10 minutes after the issuing time.
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Capacity
Subscriptions are managed with consideration of the capacity of the technical infrastructure. Each connection is rate and connection limited to avoid overload of the system.
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Availability
The technical infrastructure is highly available and maintained an availability 99,5%.
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Recoverability
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Integrity
Integrity is protected by using TLS layer for all the service interface bindings. However the Message Security based on S/MIME 4.0 proposed in SWIM TI Yellow Profile 2.0 is not yet implemented.
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Confidentiality
Data delivery is only available for registered users, who need to present their username and password for access to the services using HTTP Authorization header with Basic scheme for HTTP based connections, and using SASL plain for AMQP connections.
General Terms and Conditions of Business
LEGAL_CONSTRAINT
Terms and conditions are available at https://www.shmu.sk/sk/?page=1715.
Information Retainment
SERVICE_CONSUMPTION_CONSTRAINT
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 user.
Subscription
SERVICE_CONSUMPTION_CONSTRAINT
To subscribe, customers need to contact [email protected] and request access to the service.
Authentication
SECURITY_CONSTRAINT
The service ensures client authentication in accordance with SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile 2.0 requirement SWIM-TIYP-0042 by implementing username and password authentication using HTTP Authorization headers with Basic scheme for HTTPS based interfaces, and using SASL PLAIN for AMQP.
The service ensures server authentication in accordance with SWIM-TIYP-0042.
Authorisation
SECURITY_CONSTRAINT
The service ensures that satisfactory authorisation is put in place according to EUROCONTROL Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile requirement SWIM-TIYP-0070.
Confidentiality
SECURITY_CONSTRAINT
The service ensures point-to-point confidentiality in accordance with EUROCONTROL Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile 2.0 through the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3. The communication is encrypted by TLS with a certificate issued by the EACP.
Integrity
SECURITY_CONSTRAINT
The service ensures point-to-point integrity in accordance with EUROCONTROL Specification for SWIM Technical Infrastructure (TI) Yellow Profile through the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3.
SELF_VALIDATION
Service tested by the provider.
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AIRM
ATM Information Reference Model
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AMQP
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol
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AMS
Aeronautical Meteorological Service
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ATC
Air Traffic Control
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ATM
Air Traffic Management
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EACP
European Aviation Common PKI
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EDR
Environmental Data Retrieval
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HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
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IER
Information Exchange Requirement
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ISRM
Information Service Reference Model
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IWXXM
ICAO Meteorological Information Exchange Model
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MEP
Message Exchange Pattern
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OGC
Open Geospatial Consortium
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PCP
Pilot Common Project
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REQ
Requirement
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SHMU
Slovak hydrometeorological institute
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TIYP
Technical Infrastructure Yellow Profile
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TI
Technical Infrastructure
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The service provider ensures that the data offered within this service is created by SHMU, a REGULATED_METEOROLOGICAL_SERVICE_PROVIDER.
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https://swim-eurocontrol.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MSS/pages/638156804/AMQP+Message+Structure+in+MET-SWIM
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Typical Request/Reply Behaviour
The typical behavior is following: Client sends request to the OGC EDR interface. The service replies with the appropriate HTTP response. If the request for specific IWXXM data is made, the service returns a zip archive with one or more files containing IWXXM messages.
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Typical Data Distribution Behaviour
The service sends the data to subscribers when they are available and match their subscription using the AMQP protocol.
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<p>For AMQP subscriptions, regular heartbeat messages are sent to weather.aviation.taf topic at approximately 60-second intervals. Arrival of the heartbeat message indicates that the main subsystems of the service are running.</p>
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OGC EDR Request Interface
Allows the service consumer to request the latest available TAFs via OGC API - EDR.
PROVIDER_SIDE-
EDR operationsgit
OGC API - Environmental Data Retrieval Standard is used to implement the service operations.
Messages-
EDR RequestIN
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EDR ReplyOUT
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Appendix A: ReferencesINFORMATION_DEFINITION
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Appendix B: Operational NeedsINFORMATION_DEFINITION
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Meteorological SWIM Services Subscription Interface StandardINFORMATION_DEFINITION
EUROCONTROL SWIM-TI Yellow Profile
EUROCONTROL_SPECIFICATION_FOR_SWIM_TECHNICAL_INFRASTRUCTURE
is compliant
2.0
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol 1.0 per SWIM TI Yellow Profile
EUROCONTROL SWIM Service Description
EUROCONTROL_SPECIFICATION_FOR_SWIM_SERVICE_DESCRIPTION
is compliant
2.0
Description of Service according to EUROCONTROL specifications
Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR)
EUROCONTROL_SPECIFICATION_FOR_SWIM_TECHNICAL_INFRASTRUCTURE
is conformant
1.0
Please see references to EDR website and specifications: https://ogcapi.ogc.org/edr/.
AMQP
EUROCONTROL_SPECIFICATION_FOR_SWIM_TECHNICAL_INFRASTRUCTURE
is conformant
true
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol