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GA Met provision, UK Met Office
Jonathan Dutton, Operations Centre, Met Office, UK.
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Contents
• Basis for provision of services
• What is provided?
• How the services are accessed by the user?
• Future?
• Questions and answers
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Basis for the provision of services
• Service determined by ICAO Annex 3
• Met Authority – CAA
• Meteorological service is provided by the Met Office
• Services provided free at point of use for the end user
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What is provided?
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What is provided?
• A variety of forecasts are available for low level flight:
• F415
• F215
• F414
• F214
• AIRMET
• Ballooning forecasts
+ TAFs & METARs
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What is provided?
• F415, F215
• Charts of significant weather below 10000 FT
• ‘Areas’ of weather, with cloud, visibility, turbulence, icing and other hazards
• F415: area covers north-west Europe
• F215: area covers UK
• Issued 4 time per day
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F415
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F215
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What is provided?
• F414, F214
• Charts of wind and temperature
• Provide wind and temperature information at ‘spot’ locations for:
• F414: area covers north-west Europe
• F214: area covers UK
• Issued 4 time per day
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F414
2000 ft5000 ft10000 ft18000 ft
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F214
2000 ft5000 ft10000 ft18000 ft
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What is provided?
• AIRMET
• Text forecast of weather, cloud, visibility, icing and other hazards
• Forecast winds and temperatures
• Forecast weather divided into zones around the UK
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AIRMET zones
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AIRMET example
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What is provided?
• Ballooning Forecasts
• Additional to the AIRMETS and F214/F215
• Provides information specific to ballooning requirements e.g. thermals, inversions
• 4 regional forecasts
• issued two times per day
• plus further spot wind forecasts
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Ballooning Forecast example
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Ballooning Forecast winds example
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How are services accessed by the user?
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How are the services accessed by the user?
• Met Office provides a web-page, accessed from the main Met Office website
• Free at point of use, but users register their details
• Website updated as latest forecasts sent and also when latest METARs and TAF are updated
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How are the services accessed by the user?
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Future?
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Future?
• We will develop our services in conjunction with the CAA
• Developments in our high resolution modelling may be able help service developments
• May be able to use the high resolution modelling directly in flight & and flight planning systems
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Questions ……