1. SESAR Single European Sky Air traffic management Research
Which meteorological service provision for SESAR?
EUMETNET
WMO CAeM-XIV, Hong-Kong (China), February 2010

2. The SESAR programme
Detailed description available on the SESAR web site:
While the SES Regulations are the institutional framework allowing to solve traffic congestion in Europe, SESAR – a huge public/private partnership - will design the technical response to that challenge

3. EU Three Phases of European ATM Development
Definition Phase;
SESAR produced a European ATM Master Plan
Development Phase; 2008 – 2014
Managed by SESAR Joint Undertaking
Based on Master Plan
Results in Standards, new operational procedures, new technologies, pre-industrial components
Deployment Phase; 2015 – 2025
Implements results of development phase
Delivers the service performance increase foreseen in the ATM Master Plan

4. Concept Of Operation Civil and Military ATM performance partnership
Integration of Air and Ground systems
Integration of Airport turn Around Operations
4D trajectory prediction
System Wide Information Management
Automation Support to the Human Being
Rolling Operations Network Plan
Efficient Separation Modes

5. The SESAR basic concept
The concept is detailed management of air navigation by taking into account all the factors which may or may not have an impact on each flight, from before the departure gate to after the arrival gate
Thus ATM decisions must be made using all the necessary information (MET included) for each step of a flight
Requires full interoperability
Requires full integration of data (e.g. MET) into ATM automatic/semi automatic decision making tools
This is a completely new and very ambitious concept

6. Industrial implications
The SESAR programme necessitates the adoption of new tools and technologies for air traffic management
The Development Phase has significant involvement from private industry who are investing heavily in it
The programme is very complex and it has significant financial implications

8. The role of meteorology
“Meteorology is a large factor of uncertainty in the SESAR concept”
The key document for SESAR is the SESAR ATM Master Plan; see:
The word “meteo” can be found 34 times in the SESAR Master Plan
But at the end of reading it, you do not know more about how meteorology service provision could contribute to SESAR

9. Not properly taking the MET factor into account in the SESAR programme is a serious threat for its full success
It is recognised that the existing ICAO provisions do not respond to the ATM needs of the future
The level of awareness of that threat slowly increased within the SESAR JU
They decided to develop an action plan allowing to better take meteorology on board

10. MET in the SESAR Programme
MET is so far taken into account in two Working Packages of SESAR:
WP8: so far, the main MET outcome is a MET data fusion demonstrator; see:
WP11: the MET component of it is now under definition following an adequate EU procedure

11. Scope of WP 11
To define and validate flight and wing operation centre requirements for business/mission trajectory planning and execution
Address meteorological components to increase ATM performance – a transversal process

12. Selection of WP11 potential partners
SESAR JU lauched on the 15th September 2009 a “call for interest”, inviting the potential partners of MET service provision to SESAR to express their interest to participate in further discussions in that regard
On the 19th November 2009, Pre Qualified Tenderers (PQT) were selected
The EUMETNET EIG, which is the group of EU NMHS, responded to that call (some EUMETNET members did not participate to that response) and is a PQT

13. Next steps
Following the evaluation of the received responses to the prequalification questionnaire and registration of interest, a “competitive dialogue” will be launched by the SESAR JU
There will be three steps in that competitive dialogue:
Invitation to submit outline solutions (at present ongoing in February 2010; EUMETNET is now working on it)
Invitation to submit detailed solutions
Invitation to submit final offers (call for tender)
The award of contract(s) is planned for September 2010

14. It is likely that the proposed solutions will derive from the technical work undertaken with Eurocontrol, the METATMTF of the EUR Air Navigation Planning Group of ICAO
Eurocontrol and the US-FAA also provide opportunities for coordination in the MET domain between SESAR and NextGen by organising technical interchange meetings
We are convinced that any solution will have to be global and we welcome all efforts to enhance cooperation in the METATM domain

15. Thank you for your attention
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