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6 Volcanic Ash Advisories (VAA)

The VAA is produced by nominated Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre’s who are responsible for coordinating and disseminating information on atmospheric volcanic ash clouds that may endanger aviation. There are 9 issue centres around the world that issue the advisories.

6.1 Issuing Centre

6.1.1 Description:

This returns the currently active Volcanic Ash Advisories issued by the selected issue centre.

6.1.2 API Call:

GET /aviation/vaa/{issuecentre}

6.1.3 Path Parameter:

ParameterExampleDescription
issuecentrewellingtonA supported VAA issue centre as in the table below.

The issue centre must be lowercase.

This path parameter is Mandatory.

6.1.4 Table of Issue Centres:

Issue CentreDescriptionICAO Code
anchorageAnchorage, United StatesPAWU
buenosairesBuenos Aires, ArgentinaSABM
darwinDarwin, AustraliaADRM
londonLondon, United KingdomEGRR
montrealMontreal, CanadaCAWO
tokyoTokyo, JapanRJTD
toulouseToulouse, FranceLFPW
washingtonWashington, United StatesKNES
wellingtonWellington, New ZealandNZKL

6.1.5 Example:

This example would return textual data sourced from the specified issue centre regarding the presence of volcanic ash clouds that might impact flight operations.

GET /aviation/vaa/tokyo

6.1.6 API Response:

{
    "version":"1.0",
    "issue-time":"2018-01-24T20:16:28Z",
    "path":"/vaa/tokyo",
    "response":[
        {
            "met:domain":"aviation",
            "met:product-name":"vaa",
            "met:issue-time":"2018-01-24T06:00:00Z",
            "av:vaa-location":"tokyo",
            "met:expires":"2018-01-31T06:02:53Z",
            "met:data":"FVFE01 RJTD 240600\r\r\n\nVA ADVISORY\nDTG: 20180124/0600Z\nVAAC: TOKYO\nVOLCANO: MAYON 273030\nPSN: N1315 E12341\nAREA: PHILIPPINES\nSUMMIT ELEV: 2462M\nADVISORY NR: 2018/30\nINFO SOURCE: HIMAWARI-8\nAVIATION COLOUR CODE: NIL\nERUPTION DETAILS: VA CONTINUOUSLY OBS ON SATELLITE IMAGERY\nOBS VA DTG: 24/0520Z\nOBS VA CLD: SFC/FL180 N1335 E12308 - N1335 E12316 - N1318 E12317 - \nN1319 E12307 MOV W 10KT\nFCST VA CLD +6HR: 24/1120Z SFC/FL170 N1351 E12221 - N1250 E12214 - \nN1226 E12221 - N1226 E12153 - N1350 E12203\nFCST VA CLD +12 HR: NO VA EXP\nFCST VA CLD +18 HR: NO VA EXP\nRMK: SOME PART OF VA(FL180) OBSCURED BY MET CLOUD. VA OF PREVIOUS \nVAA(FL210) IS NOT IDENTIFIABLE DUE TO MET CLOUD OR DISSIPATED.\nNXT ADVISORY: 20180124/1200Z="
        }
    ]
}

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