Migration and Modernization of the Meteorological Service of Canada's Terminal Aerodrome Forecast Production Software

An overview of the migration and modernization of Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) production at the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC). TAFs are issued 24/7 for over 200 civilian and military airports within Canada. The legacy software program, Bullprep, was utilized as the primary TAF production and transmission tool for the Canadian Meteorological Aviation Centers (CMACs) and Canadian Forces Weather and Oceanographic Service (CFWOS) for over 30 years. The migration to a new TAF production tool was required to remove the dependency on the ageing legacy software system, to modernize TAF production for the operational forecast centers and also to incorporate MSC's new AutoTAF data feed. NinJo is MSC's main operational meteorological software program and was targeted for development for the new TAF Editor production tool. This presentation gives an overview of the complex and expansive project which resulted in the successful deployment of NinJo's TAF Editor production tool into MSC’s operational forecast centers.