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    The document summarizes significant weather (SIGWX) forecast charts issued by the Bureau of Meteorology for aviation purposes. The charts forecast significant weather conditions between flight levels 100 to 630 and are valid at 00, 06, 12, and 18 UTC. The charts indicate phenomena like tropical cyclones, turbulence, icing, cloud cover, jet streams, volcanic eruptions, and tropopause levels using standardized symbols and abbreviations. Airservices Australia distributes the Bureau's aviation forecasts and briefings are available on their website or through the Aeronautical Information Publication.

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    The document summarizes significant weather (SIGWX) forecast charts issued by the Bureau of Meteorology for aviation purposes. The charts forecast significant weather conditions between flight levels 100 to 630 and are valid at 00, 06, 12, and 18 UTC. The charts indicate phenomena like tropical cyclones, turbulence, icing, cloud cover, jet streams, volcanic eruptions, and tropopause levels using standardized symbols and abbreviations. Airservices Australia distributes the Bureau's aviation forecasts and briefings are available on their website or through the Aeronautical Information Publication.

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    The document summarizes significant weather (SIGWX) forecast charts issued by the Bureau of Meteorology for aviation purposes. The charts forecast significant weather conditions between flight levels 100 to 630 and are valid at 00, 06, 12, and 18 UTC. The charts indicate phenomena like tropical cyclones, turbulence, icing, cloud cover, jet streams, volcanic eruptions, and tropopause levels using standardized symbols and abbreviations. Airservices Australia distributes the Bureau's aviation forecasts and briefings are available on their website or through the Aeronautical Information Publication.

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    The document summarizes significant weather (SIGWX) forecast charts issued by the Bureau of Meteorology for aviation purposes. The charts forecast significant weather conditions between flight levels 100 to 630 and are valid at 00, 06, 12, and 18 UTC. The charts indicate phenomena like tropical cyclones, turbulence, icing, cloud cover, jet streams, volcanic eruptions, and tropopause levels using standardized symbols and abbreviations. Airservices Australia distributes the Bureau's aviation forecasts and briefings are available on their website or through the Aeronautical Information Publication.

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    AVIATION WEATHER PRODUCTS

    Significant Weather (SIGWX) Charts


    Bureau of Meteorology Weather Services Aviation

    SIGWX Forecast Charts


    The Bureau issues SIGWX forecast charts for significant weather expected in the airspace: FL250 to FL630 SIGWX High (SWH) FL100 to FL250 SIGWX Medium (SWM) Charts are valid for 00, 06, 12 and 18 UTC. SWH are normally available sixteen hours before validity; and SWM are normally available twenty hours before. Forecast charts are valid for the time point indicated (00, 06, 12 or 18 UTC) but are used for operations within three hours each side of this time. The following phenomena are shown on the charts:

    The Bureau issues SIGWX forecast charts for significant weather expected in the airspace FL100 to FL630.

    tropical cyclones moderate or severe turbulence, including clear air turbulence (CAT) moderate or severe icing surface fronts cumulonimbus (CB) cloud associated with thunderstorms and with any of the above non-convective cloud associated with in-cloud moderate or severe turbulence or icing jet streams volcanic eruptions tropopause heights radioactive material Note that the inclusion of CB on SIGWX charts implies the existence of thunderstorms, moderate or severe turbulence, moderate or severe icing, and hail. Cloud amount is indicated by the standard abbreviations: ISOL, OCNL, FRQ and EMBD for CB FEW, SCT, BKN and OVC for clouds other than CB The numerals following the cloud type abbreviation are the forecast height of the top and base of the cloud. If the top/base is above/below the level of the chart coverage, XXX is used, e.g. ISOL EMBD
    CB XXX 100 or ISOL EMBD CB 400 XXX or ISOL EMBD CB XXX XXX

    A similar convention is employed to indicate the forecast height of icing and turbulence. Jet streams are indicated by a solid line with pennants ( ) to show wind speeds of 50 knots, feathers ( ) to show 10 knots, and half feathers ( ) to show 5 knots. A 20 knot change is indicated by two parallel lines across the jet stream ( ). The tropopause is indicated at various points by a rectangular box framing the flight level of the tropopause. The location of the highest and lowest tropopause points may also be shown.

    SIGWX Symbols
    Tropical cyclone Moderate turbulence Severe turbulence Moderate aircraft icing Severe aircraft icing Volcanic eruption Radioactive materials in the atmosphere
    H 460

    Example Charts
    SIGWX Medium

    Tropopause high

    270 L

    Tropopause low

    SIGWX High

    380

    Tropopause level Position, speed and level of jet stream 20 kt change in jet stream wind speed Surface cold front

    FL270

    Airservices Australia is the official distributor of aviation forecasts, warnings and observations issued by the Bureau of Meteorology. Airservices flight briefing services are available at www.airservicesaustralia.com. Telephone contact details for elaborative briefings are contained in Airservices Aeronautical Information Publication Australia (AIP), which is available online through their website. Other brochures produced by the Bureau of Meteorologys aviation weather services program can be found at www.bom.gov.au/aviation/knowledge-centre.

    Commonwealth of Australia, 14 June 2012

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