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Add to Preferred SourcesAviation safety and efficiency, environmental risks and protection, as well as extreme weather and climate change impacts are on the agenda of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology.
Air traffic is doubling every 15 years, competition and congestion are both increasing, and air navigation requirements are constantly evolving. With safety in the skies of paramount importance, the demand for an expanded array of national and regional weather services is rising.
The WMO meeting, which is hosted by the United Kingdom’s Met Office at the University of Exeter, will discuss how to address present and future challenges and optimize meteorological support for air transport and navigation.
“Aviation is one of the most weather-sensitive of all economic sectors. Science and technology are rapidly advancing, and so are user requirements,” says Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology President C.M. Shun (Hong Kong Observatory). “We need to ensure that in close collaboration with the user and research communities, the weather community will be able to further develop services that are fit-for-purpose and credible, both now and in the future.“
“This is an exciting time for aviation meteorology! There’s so much more fantastic weather science and data available to us now,” said the commission’s Vice-President Ian Lisk (Met Office). “Working closely with WMO Members around the world and our colleagues in the International Civil Aviation Organisation, the Commission will be looking at new ways to make the best of this information available, relevant and useful to the wider aviation industry.”
The Commission, which usually meets every four years, will be preceded by a one-day technical conference: The Future is now: meteorology enabling aviation decision support.
The Commission session will discuss the current state-of-the-art and foreseen advances in meteorology science and technology to support aviation, and consider how to fast-track these advances into operations.
Original source: WMO
Published on 20 July 2018