WMO OSCAR | Application Area: Aeronautical Meteorology

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Application: Aeronautical Meteorology

Details

Name	Aeronautical Meteorology
Description	Meteorological information in support of the safety and optimal efficiency of aviation
Corresponding Institution	World Meteorological Organization
Contact Person	Jitze Van der Meulen

Variables measured in this Application Area

Subdomain	Variables
Basic atmospheric	Air pressure (near surface) Air specific humidity (near surface) Air temperature (near surface) Atmospheric temperature Height of the top of PBL Specific humidity Turbulence Wind (horizontal) Wind (vertical) Wind speed (near surface) Wind vector (near surface)
Clouds and precipitations	Cloud base height Cloud cover Cloud drop effective radius Cloud ice Cloud ice effective radius Cloud liquid water (CLW) Cloud type Freezing level height in clouds Icing potential Precipitation (liquid or solid) Precipitation intensity at surface (liquid or solid) Precipitation intensity at surface (solid) Precipitation type at the surface
Aerosols and radiation	Aerosol Extinction Coefficient Aerosol volcanic ash Aerosol volcanic ash Total Column Aerosol dust concentration Meteorological Optical Range (MOR) (surface) Background Luminance (surface)
Ocean	Sea surface temperature
Land surface	Wind gust
Atmospheric chemistry	SO2
Energetic particles and solar wind	Radiation Dose Rate

Requirements defined for Aeronautical Meteorology (36)

This tables shows all related requirements. For more operations/filtering, please consult the full list of Requirements
Note: In reading the values, goal is marked blue, breakthrough green and threshold orange

Id	Variable	Layer	App Area	Uncertainty	Hor Res	Ver Res	Obs Cyc	Timeliness	Coverage	Conf Level	Val Date	Source
15	Atmospheric temperature	UTLS FT PBL	Aeronautical Meteorology	2 K 3 K 5 K	50 km 70 km 100 km	0.15 km 0.3 km 0.6 km	60 min 90 min 3 h	60 min 80 min 2 h	Global	firm	2014-03-27	ET ODRRGOS
16	Cloud drop effective radius	Cloud-top	Aeronautical Meteorology	15 μm 20 μm 30 μm	50 km 70 km 100 km		60 min 90 min 3 h	60 min 90 min 2 h	Global	firm	2000-06-23	ET ODRRGOS
17	Cloud ice	FT PBL	Aeronautical Meteorology	10 % 15 % 25 %	50 km 70 km 100 km	0.15 km 0.3 km 0.6 km	60 min 90 min 3 h	60 min 90 min 2 h	Global	firm	2000-06-23	ET ODRRGOS
20	Cloud liquid water (CLW)	PBL	Aeronautical Meteorology	10 % 15 % 25 %	50 km 70 km 100 km	0.15 km 0.3 km 0.6 km	60 min 90 min 3 h	60 min 90 min 2 h	Global	firm	2000-06-23	ET ODRRGOS
21	Specific humidity	PBL	Aeronautical Meteorology	5 % 7 % 10 %	50 km 70 km 100 km	0.15 km 0.3 km 0.6 km	60 min 90 min 3 h	60 min 90 min 2 h	Global	firm	2014-03-27	J van der Meulen
22	Wind (horizontal)	FT	Aeronautical Meteorology	2 m.s^-1 2.7 m.s^-1 5 m.s^-1	50 km 63 km 100 km	0.15 km 0.238 km 0.6 km	5 min 6 min 10 min	60 min 84 min 3 h	Global	firm	2000-06-23	ET ODRRGOS
23	Wind (horizontal)	UTLS PBL	Aeronautical Meteorology	2 m.s^-1 3 m.s^-1 5 m.s^-1	50 km 70 km 100 km	0.15 km 0.3 km 0.6 km	5 min 7 min 10 min	60 min 90 min 3 h	Global	firm	2018-03-23	J van der Meulen
681	Background Luminance (surface)	Near Surface	Aeronautical Meteorology	50 %			36 sec 108 sec	36 sec 108 sec	Global	firm	2011-06-14	J van der Meulen
682	Meteorological Optical Range (MOR) (surface)	Near Surface	Aeronautical Meteorology	5 m 7 m 10 m			36 sec 108 sec	36 sec 108 sec	Global	firm	2011-06-14	J van der Meulen
688	Aerosol dust concentration	FT PBL Near Surface	Aeronautical Meteorology						Global	tentative	2012-05-08	J van der Meulen
717	Aerosol volcanic ash	PBL	Aeronautical Meteorology						Global	firm	2013-12-05	J van der Meulen
718	Aerosol volcanic ash Total Column	TC	Aeronautical Meteorology						Global	firm	2013-12-05	J van der Meulen
719	Icing potential	PBL	Aeronautical Meteorology						Global	firm	2013-12-05	J van der Meulen
720	Freezing level height in clouds	n/a (2D)	Aeronautical Meteorology						Global	firm	2013-12-05	J van der Meulen
721	Air pressure (near surface)	Near Surface	Aeronautical Meteorology	0.25 hPa 0.5 hPa 2 hPa			30 min 60 min 2 h	5 min 10 min 30 min	Point	firm	2018-01-22	J van der Meulen
722	Air specific humidity (near surface)	Near Surface	Aeronautical Meteorology	1 % 2 % 5 %			30 min 60 min 2 h	5 min 10 min 30 min	Point	firm	2014-03-27	J van der Meulen
723	Air temperature (near surface)	Near Surface	Aeronautical Meteorology	0.5 K 1 K 2 K			30 min 60 min 2 h	5 min 10 min 30 min	Point	firm	2014-03-27	J van der Meulen
724	Height of the top of PBL	n/a (2D)	Aeronautical Meteorology	0.05 km 0.1 km 0.5 km	5 km 10 km 50 km		15 min 30 min 60 min	5 min 10 min 30 min	Point	tentative	2014-03-27	J van der Meulen
725	Turbulence	PBL	Aeronautical Meteorology						Global	firm	2013-12-05	J van der Meulen
726	Cloud base height	n/a (2D)	Aeronautical Meteorology						Point	firm	2013-12-05	J van der Meulen
727	Cloud cover	PBL	Aeronautical Meteorology	5 % 7 % 25 %			10 min 30 min 60 min	5 min 10 min 30 min	Point	firm	2014-03-31	J van der Meulen
728	Cloud ice effective radius	PBL	Aeronautical Meteorology						Global	firm	2013-12-05	J van der Meulen
729	Cloud type	n/a (2D)	Aeronautical Meteorology	1 Classes ^-1 2 Classes ^-1 3 Classes ^-1			30 min 60 min 2 h	5 min 10 min 30 min	Point	firm	2014-03-27	J van der Meulen
730	Precipitation intensity at surface (liquid or solid)	Near Surface	Aeronautical Meteorology	0.001 mm/h 0.01 mm/h 0.1 mm/h			30 min 60 min 2 h	5 min 10 min 30 min	Local	firm	2014-03-27	J van der Meulen
731	Precipitation intensity at surface (solid)	Near Surface	Aeronautical Meteorology	0.1 mm/h 0.2 mm/h 1 mm/h			30 min 60 min 2 h	5 min 10 min 30 min	Point	firm	2014-03-27	J van der Meulen
732	Precipitation (liquid or solid)	PBL	Aeronautical Meteorology						Global	firm	2013-12-05	J van der Meulen
733	Wind (vertical)	UTLS FT PBL	Aeronautical Meteorology	1 cm.s^-1 1.7 cm.s^-1 5 cm.s^-1	5 km 17.1 km 200 km	0.5 km 0.8 km 2 km	15 min 25 min 60 min	5 min 8 min 30 min	Global	firm	2014-03-27	J van der Meulen
734	Wind vector (near surface)	Near Surface	Aeronautical Meteorology	0.5 m/s 1 m/s 5 m/s			5 sec 5 min 10 min	5 sec 5 min 10 min	Point	firm	2014-03-27	J van der Meulen
735	Aerosol Extinction Coefficient	PBL	Aeronautical Meteorology						Global	firm	2013-12-05	J van der Meulen
736	SO2	PBL	Aeronautical Meteorology						Global	firm	2013-12-05	J van der Meulen
737	Sea surface temperature	Sea surface	Aeronautical Meteorology	1 K 2 K 5 K	5 km 11 km 50 km		60 min 60 min 2 y	1 y 1 y 2 y	Global	firm	2014-03-27	J van der Meulen
738	Radiation Dose Rate	UTLS	Aeronautical Meteorology						Global	speculative	2013-12-05	J van der Meulen
762	Precipitation type at the surface	Near Surface	Aeronautical Meteorology				30 min 60 min 2 h	5 min 10 min 30 min	Point	firm	2014-03-27	J van der Meulen
763	Wind gust	Near Surface Land surface	Aeronautical Meteorology	0.5 m.s^-1 1 m.s^-1 2 m.s^-1			5 sec 60 sec 2 min	5 sec 60 sec 2 min	Point	firm	2014-03-31	J van der Meulen
764	Wind speed (near surface)	Near Surface	Aeronautical Meteorology	0.2 m/s 0.5 m/s 1 m/s			5 sec 60 sec 2 min	5 sec 60 sec 2 min	Point	firm	2014-03-31	J van der Meulen
765	Wind vector (near surface)	Near Surface	Aeronautical Meteorology	0.4 m/s 0.7 m/s 2 m/s			5 sec 60 sec 2 min	5 sec 60 sec 2 min	Point	firm	2014-03-31	J van der Meulen