{
  "informationServiceDescription": {
    "title": "WinterWXindex2/point",
    "referenceDate": "2021-06-24",
    "edition": "1.0.1",
    "serviceAbstract": "<p>WinterWXindex2/point -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 general avaition and helicopters. 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": "WinterWXindex2/point",
      "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 GA and Helicopters",
            "description": "<p><span aria-labelledby=\"value\"><span class=\"objectBox objectBox-string\">Winter Weather Index for General Aviation and Helicopters service fills the need to retrieve information about weather phenomena for flight planning and total airport management. No IER was used. </span></span></p>"
          }
        ]
      },
      "functionality": [
        {
          "name": "Download Winter Weather Index for General Aviation and Helicopters to a Point",
          "description": "Allow the service consumer to retrieve Winter Weather Index for General Aviation and Helicopters forecast information in the European domaine to any desired point as time serie 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": "WinterWeatherIndexForGeneralAviation",
          "definition": "",
          "airmCorrespondence": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    "references": {
      "implementedStandard": [
        {
          "title": "NIL",
          "description": "NIL",
          "standardType": "SERVICE_STANDARD",
          "conformanceStatement": "NIL"
        }
      ]
    },
    "serviceInterface": [
      {
        "name": "Winter Weather Index for General Aviation and Helicopters to a Point interface",
        "description": "The interface for the service is provide via HTTP API and it is described fully in Github: https://github.com/fmidev/smartmet-plugin-timeseries/wiki/Using-the-Timeseries-API",
        "provisionSide": "PROVIDER_SIDE",
        "operations": [
          {
            "name": "Winter Weather Index for General Aviation and Helicopters to a Point",
            "description": "The interface for the service is provided via HTTP API. Message exchange pattern is request-response type. Typically the user makes a request to the server and in response gets the time series file to a single desired point.",
            "messages": [
              {
                "name": "WinterWeatherIndexForGeneralAviationAndHelicoptersToPointRequest",
                "direction": "IN"
              },
              {
                "name": "WinterWeatherIndexForGeneralAviationAndHelicoptersToPointResponse",
                "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"
      }
    ]
  }
}