High Resolution Pan European Convection Service 1.0.0
Current JSON Original JSON

Abstract

The High Resolution Pan-European Convection Service provides a SWIM Compliant access point to harmonised pan-European convection data in GRIB2 and XML format, on behalf of several european meteorological service providers.The consumers can subscribe to the latest information sent via AMQP, or make HTTP requests.The convection forecasts indicate areas of various intensity levels (light, moderate and severe).The products are intended to be used strategically in the flight planning phase or for flight briefings, and also tactically by specialists and air traffic control to provide in-flight updates. Authorised aviation stakeholders include European Air Traffic Management users, Eurocontrol Network Managers, State ANSPs, airlines, and airports. Additional benefits of this service include providing datasets for longterm aviation analysis, algorithm development and verification, reducing flight delays, improving safety and fuel efficiency. Note: This service is currently non-operational.

Service Type
SWIM_COMPLIANT
Life Cycle
PROSPECTIVE
Business Activity Type
AERODROME_OPERATION
AIRSPACE_ORGANISATION_AND_MANAGEMENT
AIRSPACE_USER_OPERATIONS
INFORMATION_MANAGEMENT
SERVICE_DELIVERY_MANAGEMENT
TRAFFIC_SYNCHRONISATION
Intended Consumer
AERONAUTICAL_INFORMATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
AIR_TRAFFIC_SERVICE_PROVIDER
CIVIL_AIR_NAVIGATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER
CIVIL_AIRSPACE_USER
NETWORK_MANAGER
PROVIDER_OF_DATA_SERVICES
REGULATED_METEOROLOGICAL_SERVICE_PROVIDER
Information Exchange Category
METEOROLOGICAL_INFORMATION_EXCHANGE
Application Message Exchange Pattern Entity
PUBLISH_SUBSCRIBE
State ICAO Nationality Letters
LF
ED
EG
EI
In-Operation Date
30-Jun-2025
Provider
METEO-FRANCE

Météo-France is the French national meteorological service, an ISO 9001:2015-certified public sector body placed under the authority of the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, in charge of Transportation. Météo-France has been designated by executive order as the exclusive provider of meteorological services to air navigation over French national territory, including overseas, in accordance with Single European Sky EU regulation. In this context, the organisation’s main goals are: to integrate meteorological innovation so as to improve safety and regularity of «en route» traffic and to develop decision-making tools on major hubs (CDM: collaborative decision making). Météo-France operates a 24/24 7/7 service to air navigation by providing legacy products and also innovative MET forecast solutions to the aviation community at local, regional and global scales. To support this service, Météo-France runs an ambitious and wide ranging R&D program into aviation meteorology (e.g. nowcasting, Numerical Weather Prediction systems including ensemble prediction system, information systems), and also studies the climate change and its foreseeable impacts

Météo-France is a major player in R&D programmes in order to improve weather-related services to air navigation with regard to flight safety (e.g. weather hazards such as convection or clear air turbulence), to traffic regularity (e.g. providing parameters to calculate optimal trajectories and thus limiting fuel consumption), to a better management of the stream of inbound and outbound traffic by developing very high-resolution models over major airports and their vicinity. The overall goal is to improve air transport in terms of environmental impact as much as in terms of cost and safety. Météo-France has been involved in collaboration with the other partners in SESAR WP11.2 on the definition and development of the MET-GATE concept and successfully led this EUMETNET partners’ activity to the awarding process of the SWIM Master Class 2015. In addition, Météo-France is highly involved in the OGC program for web-services development and standardization.

Provider Type
REGULATED_METEOROLOGICAL_SERVICE_PROVIDER
Point of Contact
Operational need for Harmonised Convection Service

The provision of a source of consistent and authoritative data for situational awareness of Convection hazards across the pan European domain supports the flight planning phase and flight briefings, and the provision of in-flight updates by specialists and air traffic control

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 contact METEO FRANCE to register administratively to METGATE.

Encryption

SSL Encryption is in effect to AMQPS and HTTPS services.

Signature

The requested information may contain a signature using SHA256.

Capacity

Best effort - metrics to be determined

Confidentiality

This service is part of the standard METEO FRANCE secured infrastructure which is ANSSI compliant.

Integrity

This service is part of the standard METEO FRANCE secured infrastructure which is ANSSI compliant.

AIRM

ATM Information Reference Model

AMQP

Advanced Queueing Message Protocol

AMQPS

Advanced Queueing Message Protocol Secured

ANSSI

Agence Nationale de la Securite des Systemes d'Information

API

Application Program Interface

ATC

Air Traffic Control

ATM

Air Traffic Management

DWD

Deutscher Wetterdienst

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

ICAO

International Civil Aviation Organization

IWXXM

ICAO Meteorological Information Exchange Model

JWT

JSON Web Token

OGC

Open Geospatial Consortium

SESAR

Single European Sky ATM Research

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer

SWIM

System Wide Information Management

UK

United Kingdom

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

WCS

Web Coverage Service

WFS

Web Feature Service

XML

eXtensible Markup Language

Information
Harmonised Convection
Pan European Convection data from Meteo France, the Met Office and Deutscher WetterDienst (French, UK and German National Meteorological Services respectively), indicating forecasts of light, moderate and severe Convection.
The service provides information from the GRIB2 IP68 Convection product data from the Met Office, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) and METEO FRANCE.
User AMQP Client

The consumer side needs to have a working AMQP1.0 client to receive the requested information.

Nominal behaviour

The user subscribes to the service, then gets a notification when new information is available, until he unsubscribes. The notification contains a URL for the user to request the associated data.

GRIB2 Pan European Convection Service Request Interface

Allows the service consumer to request Pan European Convection data in GRIB2 format

PROVIDER_SIDE
SYNCHRONOUS_REQUEST_RESPONSE
Operations
GRIB2 Convection data
Pan European Convection Service Subscription Interface

Allows the service consumer to subscribe to Pan European Convection information.

PROVIDER_SIDE
SYNCHRONOUS_REQUEST_RESPONSE
Operations
pause

This operation allows a service consumer to pause the subscription for the concerned topic.

Idempotent
NON_IDEMPOTENT
Operation Message
PauseRequest
resume

This operation allows a service consumer to resume a subscription that had been paused.

Idempotent
NON_IDEMPOTENT
Operation Message
ResumeRequest
Pan European Convection Service Distribution Interface

Allows the service provider to publish Pan European Convection information notification to service consumers based on their subscription.

CONSUMER_SIDE
FIRE_AND_FORGET
Operations
publish XML Convection

This operation allows the service provider to publish Pan European XML Convection information notification to service consumers based on their subscriptions.

Idempotent
IDEMPOTENT
Operation Message
XML Convection notification
References
Revision Save Date
Wed, 06/12/2024 - 12:25
Schema version
v2