The meteorological services for civil aviation are provided by the Meteorological Department of the Civil Aviation authority of the State of Qatar.
| Post: | Head of Meteorology Civil Aviation Authority P.O. BOX 3000 DOHA STATE OF QATAR |
| Tel: | (974) 4455 2727 |
| Fax: | (974) 4465 9541 |
| AFS: | OTHHYMYX |
Differences to these provisions are detailed in subsection GEN 1.7.
Meteorological service is provided within the entire territory of State of Qatar, including its territorial waters as well as the airspace over the high seas within Doha TMA.
| Name of station/Location indicator | Type & frequency of observation/automatic observing equipment | Types of MET reports & Supplementary Information included | Observation System & Site(s) | Hours of operation | Climatological information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| DOHA/DOHA INTL OTBD | Manual, half hourly routine plus special observations / MIDAS 600, @AOBS | METAR, SPECI, Selected SPECIAL, SYNOP | Wind Sensors at MET station located approximately 280 m West of RCL abeam TWY E1 and TWY D1 intersection (wind report in METAR and SPECI taken from this measurement). Anemometers and wind vanes each located approximately at 117 m West of RCL abeam start of RWY 15 and 268 m East of RCL abeam turning pad in the middle of the RWY. Windsocks at both RWY ends. RVR transmissometers at both ends and in the middle of the RWY. | H24 | Climatological tables AVBL |
| DOHA/HAMAD INTL OTHH | Manual, half hourly routine plus special observations / MIDAS 600, @AOBS | METAR, SPECI, Selected SPECIAL, SYNOP | - WMO Class A manned observatory on 24 hours watch MET Automatic Station (located approximately 300 m West of centre line West Runway, 1 200 m from threshold 16R): Runways: Thresholds 16L, 34L: MET conventional station: | H24 | Climatological tables AVBL |
The Aerodrome Meteorological Office is located in Hamad International Airport (telephone numbers: (974)40102239; (974)40102238) and provides the following services H24:
Only auto weather station is available at AL KHOR aerodrome and consultation is available by telephone from the Aerodrome Meteorological Office.
Details of documentation supplied for each flight are determined by arrangement between the operator and the Aerodrome Meteorological Office. Flight documentation is normally provided for domestic flights. For international flights, the flight documentation comprises a significant weather chart, an upper wind and upper air temperature chart and the latest available aerodrome forecast for the destination and its alternate aerodromes.
Routine aerodrome forecasts received from other Meteorological Offices are normally included in meteorological documentation without modification. When a required aerodrome forecast is not received, a provisional forecast may be issued by the Meteorological Office providing the documentation.
After documentation has been issued and until take-off, the Aerodrome Meteorological Office makes available amendments to the documentation. It is the responsibility of the operator's local representative to provide pre-departure amendment(s) from the Aerodrome Meteorological Office to the pilot-in- command.
Climatological summaries for DOHA INTL / HAMAD INTL are available from the Aerodrome Meteorological Office.
Operators requiring meteorological service or changes in existing meteorological services shall notify, sufficiently in advance, to the Department of Meteorology of the Qatar Civil Aviation Authority in accordance with ICAO Annex 3, paragraph 2.3.
Operators or their flight crew members shall notify the Aerodrome Meteorological Office at DOHA INTL / HAMAD INTL, as soon as the following information becomes available:
For the benefit of subsequent aircraft and for validation and further enhancement of the low-level wind shear and turbulence alerting services, pilots are requested to inform ATC if they experience any microburst, wind shear or turbulence on arrival or departure, irrespective of whether an alert has been given. ATC will pass such reports to following aircraft.
Further to the pilot reporting of low-level wind shear and turbulence at DOHA INTL / HAMAD INTL airports, pilots are requested to pass special aircraft observation as soon as possible to the appropriate ATS unit by voice communications whenever any of the following conditions are encountered or observed:
When other meteorological conditions not listed above are encountered and which, in the opinion of the pilot-in-command, may affect the safety or markedly affect the efficiency of other operations, the pilot-in-command shall advise ATC as soon as practicable.
Aircraft observations shall be reported as air-reports following the instructions in ICAO PANS-ATM (Doc 4444) - Appendix 1.
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