High Resolution Pan European Convection Service 1.0.0
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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 (Meteo-France, Met Office and Deutscher Wetterdienst). This information service was developed and implemented during the IP68 project ‘European Harmonised Forecasts of Adverse Weather (Icing, Turbulence, Convection and Winter weather)‘ co-funded by the European Union. 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

METEO FRANCE is the French national meteorological service provider, an ISO 9001 certified public sector body.

METEO FRANCE has been designated by executive order as the exclusive Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) for meteorological services over the French national territory, including overseas, in accordance with Annex 3 of the Chicago Convention (ICAO) and the Single European Sky EU regulations.

In this context, METEO FRANCE’s main goals are:

  • To produce and provide a wide range of aeronautical products and services, in compliance with its obligations as an ANSP in France, Regional OPMET Center (ROC) in Europe, Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) over Europe, Africa, Asia and Tropical Cyclone Advisory Center (TCAC) over the West Indian Ocean.
  • To integrate meteorological innovation to improve safety and regularity of «En-route» traffic
  • To develop decision-making tools on major hubs, such as Collaborative Decision Making.

METEO FRANCE operates a 24/24 7/7 service to air navigation by providing legacy products as well as innovative MET solutions to the aviation community at local, regional and global scales.

To support this service, METEO FRANCE runs an ambitious and wide-ranging R&D program driven by aviation meteorology applications (e.g. nowcasting, numerical weather prediction systems including ensemble prediction system, information systems), and studies climate change and its foreseeable impacts.

The overall goal is to improve air transportation in terms of safety, efficiency and environmental and climatic impact.

METEO FRANCE has been and still is involved in a number of international and European projects (e.g. SESAR projects) and has regular exchanges with other MET ANSP at European and international levels. METEO FRANCE will continue to contribute to the definition and subsequent implementation of new services currently under discussion such as the Aerodrome Meteorological Observational Information Service (AMOIS), the Aerodrome Meteorological Forecast Information Service (AMFIS) or the Hazardous Weather Information Service (HWIS),.

In addition, METEO FRANCE is highly involved in research work aimed at making progress on the key aeronautical parameters derived from numerical weather prediction, mainly in nowcasting.

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
Mon, 03/16/2026 - 12:05
Schema version
v2