{
  "informationServiceDescription": {
    "title": "WinterWXindex1/area",
    "referenceDate": "2021-06-24",
    "edition": "1.0.1",
    "serviceAbstract": "<p>WinterWXindex1/area -service is a forecast for the potential impact of winter weather conditions on air traffic. Especially related to icing and need for de-icing for aircrafts with the de-icing systems. It is post-processed information from ECMWF input data and it is intended to air traffic planner, airport maintenance, air traffic control, airlines and pilots to help and prepare for Winter weather conditions. The forecast has 3 classes for severity of icing: light, moderate and heavy.</p>",
    "serviceIdentification": {
      "name": "WinterWXindex1/area",
      "version": "1.0.1"
    },
    "serviceProvider": {
      "name": "FMI",
      "description": "<p>FMI is the designated aeronautical meteorological service provider for Helsinki FIR as designated by the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Finland and as certified by Finnish Transport and Communications Agency.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>"
    },
    "serviceCategorisation": {
      "businessActivityType": [
        "AERODROME_OPERATION"
      ],
      "intendedConsumer": [
        "AERONAUTICAL_INFORMATION_SERVICE_PROVIDER",
        "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",
        "MILITARY_DEFENCE_CENTRE",
        "NETWORK_MANAGER",
        "PROVIDER_OF_DATA_SERVICES",
        "REGULATED_METEOROLOGICAL_SERVICE_PROVIDER"
      ],
      "informationCategory": [
        "COOPERATIVE_NETWORK_INFORMATION_EXCHANGE",
        "FLIGHT_INFORMATION_EXCHANGE",
        "METEOROLOGICAL_INFORMATION_EXCHANGE"
      ],
      "lifeCycle": [
        {
          "lifeCycleStage": "OPERATIONAL"
        }
      ]
    },
    "generalDescription": {
      "operationalEnvironment": {
        "operationalNeeds": [
          {
            "name": "Operational context for Winter Weather Index for Aircraft de-icing systems",
            "description": "<p>Winter Weather Index for Aircraft de-icing systems service fills the need to retrieve information about weather phenomena for flight planning and total airport management. No IER was used</p>"
          }
        ]
      },
      "functionality": [
        {
          "name": "Download Winter Weather Index for Aircrafts with the de‐icing systems over an area",
          "description": "Allow the service consumer to retrieve Winter Weather Index for Aircrafts with the de‐icing systems forecast information in the European domaine in GRIB2 format"
        }
      ],
      "accessAndUseConditions": [
        {
          "name": "Use the apikey",
          "type": "SECURITY_CONSTRAINT",
          "description": "The access to the service is granted by the apikey in the request."
        },
        {
          "name": "SLA",
          "type": "SECURITY_CONSTRAINT",
          "description": "The access to the service is subject to the signature of a Service Level Agreement with FMI"
        }
      ],
      "dateInOperation": "2021-09-01",
      "validation": [
        {
          "type": "INDEPENDENT_VALIDATION"
        }
      ],
      "abbreviations": [
        {
          "name": "FMI",
          "description": "Finnish Meteorological Institute"
        },
        {
          "name": "MET",
          "description": "Meteorological services"
        },
        {
          "name": "ANSP",
          "description": "Air Navigation Service Provider"
        }
      ]
    },
    "informationDescription": {
      "informationDefinition": [
        {
          "name": "WinterWeatherIndex",
          "definition": "",
          "airmCorrespondence": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    "references": {
      "implementedStandard": [
        {
          "title": "NIL",
          "description": "NIL",
          "standardType": "SERVICE_STANDARD",
          "conformanceStatement": "NIL"
        }
      ]
    },
    "serviceInterface": [
      {
        "name": "Winter Weather Index for Aircrafts with the de‐icing systems over an area",
        "description": "The interface for the service is provided as a GRIB2 download service via HTTP and it is described fully in Github: https://github.com/fmidev/smartmet-plugin-download/wiki/SmartMet-plugin-download",
        "provisionSide": "PROVIDER_SIDE",
        "operations": [
          {
            "name": "Winter Weather Index for Aircrafts with the de‐icing systems over an area",
            "description": "The interface for the service is provided as a GRIB download service via HTTP. Message exchange pattern is request-response type. Typically the user makes a request to the server and in response gets a GRIB file.",
            "messages": [
              {
                "name": "WinterWeatherIndexForAircraftsWithTheDeIcingSystemsAreaRequest",
                "direction": "IN"
              },
              {
                "name": "WinterWeatherIndexForAircraftsWithTheDeIcingSystemsAreaResponse",
                "direction": "OUT"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "endpoints": [
          {
            "name": "Production Service Endpoint",
            "description": "The service is available for consumption for operational usage at this endpoint. Note that the user must set the apikey into the url at place APIKEY",
            "url": "https://data.fmi.fi/fmi-apikey/APIKEY/timeseries?producer=wwi&param=TopLinkIndex3,latitude,longitude,utctime&latlon=62,24&format=json&timestep=data&starttime=data&endtime=data"
          }
        ],
        "messageExchangePattern": "SYNCHRONOUS_REQUEST_RESPONSE"
      }
    ]
  }
}