IBM Weather Company

Maverick Dispatch

SaaS-based flight-following and dispatch platform that integrates aviation weather intelligence and AI-driven insights directly into dispatch workflows.

Fragmented data sources and legacy dispatch systems create cognitive overload for dispatchers and delay operational decisions. Maverick Dispatch consolidates weather and aviation data into a single interface with AI-prioritized alerts to reduce noise and support faster, safer decision-making.

• AI-driven weather intelligence integrated into dispatch workflows
• Context-driven alerts that filter noise and highlight critical information
• TrACR (Terminal Airspace Convection Risk) for convection detection near flight paths
• Predictive airport capacity modeling showing forecast arrival and departure rates

Pilotbrief

Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) application providing interactive aviation weather briefings, airspace notifications, and flight plan visualization for connected cockpit environments. Enables pilots to access weather intelligence, turbulence forecasts, and integrated in-flight radar before and during flight.

Pilots lack consolidated, actionable weather situational awareness in the cockpit, leading to suboptimal routing decisions, unnecessary turbulence encounters, and disconnected communication with dispatch. Approximately 75% of air traffic delays are weather-related, adding significant costs to airline operations.

• Interactive visualization of flight weather briefings, airspace notifications, and flight plans in one workspace
• Common weather situational awareness for dispatch and flight deck
• Predictive turbulence forecasts and real-time turbulence alerts
• Integrated in-flight radar for rerouting decisions

Maverick WXAlert

Workflow-integrated turbulence alerting and route optimization solution that delivers weather hazard notifications to cockpits via ACARS, including in limited- or no-connectivity scenarios.

Turbulence incidents cause passenger and crew injuries, aircraft structural inspections, flight diversions, and schedule disruptions. Traditional notification methods rely on delayed pilot reports or infrequently updated models. Maverick WXAlert provides real-time, multi-source turbulence intelligence delivered directly to cockpits even when in-flight connectivity is unavailable.

• ACARS-based delivery of turbulence and weather hazard alerts
• Works in limited and non-connected cockpit environments
• Combines EDR data, TAPS automated turbulence reports, PIREPs, proprietary SIGMETs, and Flight Plan Guidance
• Expanded hazard alerting: crosswinds, proprietary SIGMETs and FPGs, official government SIGMETs and AIRMETs

• Meteorologists are FAA EWINS certified

Fusion

Real-time global flight tracking and aviation operations management platform providing dispatchers, operations personnel, and managers with early insight into changing flight, airport, and airspace conditions.

Airline operations teams require simultaneous awareness of aircraft position, weather conditions, airport status, and FAA traffic management programs across an entire network. Fusion consolidates these data sources and uses intelligent alerting to enable manage-by-exception workflows.

• Continuous global ADS-B-based flight tracking
• Proprietary weather content powered by the GRAF model
• Global Surface Movement using FlightAware ADS-B and ASDE-X feeds at over 6,000 airports
• Intelligent alerting engine checked every 30 seconds evaluating hundreds of rules

• ISO 27001

Weather Forecast Services (Aviation)

FAA EWINS-certified meteorologist-led aviation weather forecasting service providing 24/7/365 operational decision support.

Airlines require expert human interpretation of complex weather data to supplement automated tools, particularly during irregular operations and critical weather events. Automated systems alone cannot provide the judgment needed to issue actionable, tailored guidance for specific aircraft and routes.

• 24/7/365 coverage by over 100 aviation meteorologists
• Average meteorologist experience of over 10 years in aviation forecasting
• Enroute Hazard SIGMETs issued globally, updated every 3 hours or as needed
• Flight Plan Guidance (FPGs) tailored for transport-class aircraft

• FAA EWINS (Enhanced Weather Information System) certified

Aviation Enroute API Package

Proprietary API package delivering en-route flight hazard data for icing, turbulence, and high ice water content (HIWC) along with enhanced advisory products. Includes GTG3 Turbulence Forecast, Forecast Icing Potential (FIP), HIWC forecast, WSI-processed AIRMETs, and WSI SIGMETs.

Airlines building custom flight operations tools require access to high-resolution, altitude-aware en-route hazard data that goes beyond government-issued advisories. The package provides proprietary, frequently updated forecasts for the three primary en-route atmospheric hazards, icing, turbulence, and ice water content, across all flight levels.

• GTG3 Turbulence Forecast: turbulence intensity predictions across all flight levels on a global scale
• Forecast Icing Potential (FIP): probability and severity of airframe icing at altitude
• High Ice Water Content (HIWC) forecast for engine performance risk assessment
• WSI-processed AIRMETs: enhanced geographic precision beyond standard government-issued products

Aviation Core API Package

API package delivering government-sourced, worldwide aviation meteorological products via standardized GeoJSON vector data. Provides the foundational weather data set for flight operations, dispatch, and planning teams including METARs, TAFs, AIRMETs, SIGMETs, PIREPs, TFRs, VAAC volcanic ash advisories, and oceanic track data.

Aviation operators and developers need reliable, globally consistent, machine-readable access to authoritative government-sourced weather observation and advisory data for integration into custom flight planning and operations tools.

• Vector Aviation METARs: surface weather observations from airports worldwide
• Vector Aviation PIREPs: pilot reports of in-flight turbulence, icing, and wind shear
• Vector Aviation TAFs: terminal aerodrome forecasts for departure and arrival planning
• Vector Aviation AIRMETs: advisories for turbulence, icing, and low visibility

GRAF (Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting System)

Proprietary global weather forecasting model that serves as the core modeling engine for The Weather Company's aviation products. Physics-based, GPU-accelerated, hourly-updating global model capable of predicting convective events such as thunderstorms at scales down to 3.5 km resolution.

Conventional global weather models update every 6 or more hours and operate at resolutions too coarse to capture localized convective hazards such as thunderstorms or turbulence cells, creating gaps in aviation safety awareness between model runs.

• Hourly update cycle, best recency of any operational global weather model
• 3.5 km spatial resolution for North America and Europe
• 5-minute temporal forecast data for the US and Europe; 15-minute globally
• First operational global weather model to run on a GPU-accelerated supercomputer