New AMIDS Products

The Aviation Meteorological Information Dissemination System (AMIDS) is a dedicated web-based system operated by the Hong Kong Observatory to supply and display meteorological information to registered aviation users in Hong Kong. In particular, the system is made available to airlines, ground handling agents and flight crew members at the Hong Kong International Airport for flight planning, flight documentation and self-briefing purposes. New AMIDS products recently launched are listed below.

Probabilistic Forecast of Tropical Cyclone Distance from HKIA (Dec 2011) Presentation Materials of Weather Briefing in Tropical Cyclone Situations and Other New AMIDS Products (Dec 2011) SIGMET for Radioactive Cloud (Jun 2011) Webpage for Significant Convection Monitoring and Forecast (Jun 2011) Aviation Weather Information on Mobile Platform (Jan 2011) Enhanced Weather Summary Webpage (Aug 2010) New Meteorological Satellite Imagery - Fengyun-2E (Aug 2010) Email Notification of Aerodrome Warnings (Aug 2010) Objective Wind Probabilistic Forecasts (Aug 2010) QNH Observations (Mar 2010) Email Notification on Operationally Significant Weather Condition in TAF (Mar 2010) New Satellite Product to Aid Tracking of Tropical Cyclones (Mar 2010) Volcanic Ash Activity Monitoring Page (Aug 2009) New Satellite Weather Product for Aviation Community (Aug 2009) Weather Photos of Northern Lantau (Aug 2009) New TAF Code and 30-hour TAF (Feb 2009) Extraction of Aerodrome Forecast from TAF for VOLMET Broadcast (Feb 2009) Availability of 6-hour and 12-hour WAFS Forecast Charts (Feb 2009) Additional Information on Cloud Condition at Chek Lap Kok (Oct 2008) Customize Landing Minima by Users (Oct 2008) WAFS Gridded Forecasts of Icing, Turbulence and Cumulonimbus Clouds (Oct 2008) Additional Weather Photos for General Aviation (Jul 2008) New Airport Thunderstorm and Lightning Alerting System (Feb 2008) Additional Information for Local Aviation (Feb 2008) Real-time SIGMET Monitoring webpage (Nov 2007) More Weather Photos for Local Aviators (Nov 2007) More Forecast Charts to Suite Regional Flights (Nov 2007) Aviation-weather Disaster Risk Reduction (ADRR) Webpage (Nov 2007) Addition of 128-km range radar images (Nov 2007) The Airport Gets Ready for This Year's Typhoon Season (June 2007) Radar pictures overlaid with lightning locations (Dec 2006) Tropical cyclone tracks for tropical cyclones within 8-36N 100-140E (Dec 2006) Quick search for Destination Weather (Dec 2006) Improved dissemination of warnings via SMS (Dec 2006) Winds Around HKIA (Text Verion) (Dec 2006) Weather Summary for HKIA (Dec 2006) Extended Takeoff Forecast (Dec 2006) More Hong Kong Weather Photos (Jun 2006) New aerodrome warning icons (Jun 2006) ATIS on AMIDS (Dec 2005) Graphical Tropical Cyclone SIGMET (Dec 2005) World-wide coverage of satellite imageries (Dec 2005) New radar images on AMIDS (Dec 2005) Flight document customization package (Dec 2005) Polar temperature charts on AMIDS (Dec 2005) Lightning Location Information System (Jun 2005) Medium Level Significant Weather Forecasts in New Format (Jun 2005) High-resolution Satellite Images of the Hong Kong and Pearl River Delta Region (Jun 2005) Satellite Images and Tropical Cyclone Track with Flight Routes (Jun 2005) Customized Upper Wind and Temperature Forecast Charts (Jun 2005) New Colour-enhanced Satellite Images (Jun 2005)