Aviation | News | 2023-04-03 | ET-MHS and ET-CCV merge to become ET-WCS
The Standing Committee on Services for Aviation (SC-AVI) has several subsidiary bodies. Recently, the Chair of SC-AVI, with the concurrence of the Standing Committee itself, decided to merge two of the subsidiary bodies.
More specifically, the Expert Team on Aeronautical Meteorological Hazards Science (ET-MHS) and Expert Team on the Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Aviation (ET-CCV) have merged to become the Expert Team on Weather and Climate Science for Aviation Applications (ET-WCS).
The new expert team benefits from expertise that was available to the predecessor teams and also welcomes several new entrants as core experts and associate experts.
As with the predecessor teams and directly reporting to SC-AVI, the ET-WCS will be responsive to the needs of WMO Members and their aeronautical meteorological service providers as well as the needs of the aviation industry in the context of authoritative weather and climate science advice.
ET-WCS will, for example, play an instrumental role in the conducting of aeronautical meteorology science webinars and a conference, the supply of advice on the impacts of climate change on aviation, a conduit between SC-AVI and the Research Board's World Weather Research Programme regarding Phase 2 of WMO's Aviation Research and Development Project (AvRDP2), and WMO's advice to the hazardous weather information service (HWIS) concept that's under development within the Meteorology Panel (METP) of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
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