International Civil Aviation Organization Establishment of ICAO requirements

International Civil Aviation Organization Establishment of ICAO requirements for Space Weather Greg Brock Acting Chief, Meteorology Section ICAO Headquarters, Montreal 17 May 2011 WMO Cg-XVI Side Event – Global Preparedness for Space Weather Hazards

Contents • Background • Recent progress • Future activities ICAO requirements for Space Weather – WMO Cg XVI Side Event – 17 May 2011 2

Background • Year 2000: New air • Polar trajectories are trans-polar routes more cost effective for opened up between airlines North America and East – Shorter, more direct, long-haul routes Asia – saving fuel and • Later: Polar routes minimising across the South Pole environmental impact • Today: Approx 8000 • …and more convenient trans- or cross-polar for passengers routes per year (N and S – Less time in the air Poles) ICAO requirements for Space Weather – WMO Cg XVI Side Event – 17 May 2011 3

Background ICAO MET Divisional Meeting (2002) Recommendation 1/20 c) IAVW Operations Group (2004 – present) ANC Conclusions 1/33, 3/31, 4/29, 5/18 and 5/19 Deliverable IAVWOPSG-09 • • Recognition that aircraft operating on high latitude polar routes could be exposed to hazardous levels of solar radiation that could affect crew and passenger health, communications, navigation and avionics Recommendation that an assessment be conducted of the need for the provision of information for international air navigation on solar radiation storms and other bio-hazards ICAO requirements for Space Weather – WMO Cg XVI Side Event – 17 May 2011 4

Recent progress IAVWOPSG Conclusion 4/29 IAVWOPSG Conclusion 5/19 • Development of guidance material on space weather with emphasis on the description of the impact of space weather on international air navigation • 4 States plus WMO • Now available at: • Development of [ICAO] requirements for Space Weather http: //www 2. icao. int/en/ anb/metaim/met/iavwopsg/ Pages/default. aspx • – Drafting of operational requirements and associated guidance material – Development of milestones for the development and roll-out of a Space Weather service for international air navigation 7 States, IATA, IFALPA, IFATCA, in coordination with ICAO and WMO ICAO requirements for Space Weather – WMO Cg XVI Side Event – 17 May 2011 5

Future activities • IAVWOPSG/6 (September 2011, Dakar) – Review and discuss follow-up to Conclusion 5/19: • Draft operational requirements • Draft guidance material • Roll-out plan/milestones for a space weather service – Consider next-steps with respect to: • SARPs, procedures • Space weather service • ICAO 12 th Air Navigation Conference (2012) • ICAO MET/AIM Divisional Meeting (2014), conjoint with WMO CAe. M ICAO requirements for Space Weather – WMO Cg XVI Side Event – 17 May 2011 6