STRUCTURE OF TYPHOON ADVISORY IN CAP (COMMON ALERTING PROTOCOL) FORMAT RSMC TOKYO - TYPHOON CENTER Identifies a CAP message, in UUID format. [0-9a-f]{8}-([0-9a-f]{4}-){3}[0-9a-f]{12} Currently fixed, using email address. [\-\w]+@[.\w]+ Time of dissemination of the message. [\d\-]+T[\d:]+\+00:00 Operational status, currently chosen from three options. Actual Exercise Test Currently fixed. Alert Currently fixed. Public ! element "restriction" not used Currently fixed: profile to CAP format. CAP-RSMCTK ! element "note" not used ! element "references" not used ! element "incidents" not used An "info" element is created for each time level (analysis or forecast hour). indicating English en-US Word "Met" for Meteorology. Met Type of event, actually machine-readable type of "info" block. TROPICAL CYCLONE ADVISORY/ANALYSIS TROPICAL CYCLONE ADVISORY/FORECAST ! element "responseType" not used Currently fixed. Unknown Curently fixed. Unknown Word "Observed" for present position. "Likely (50% or more)" for forecast position, having circle of 70% likeliness in mind. Observed Likely - element eventCode[1] Machine-readable type of "info" block. EventType TC_Analysis TC_Forecast24 TC_Forecast45 TC_Forecast48 TC_Forecast69 TC_Forecast72 TC_Forecast96 TC_Forecast120 Time at which the message take effect. [\d\-]+T[\d:]+\+00:00 Time for which this "info" block is describing. [\d\-]+T[\d:]+\+00:00 Time at which the message is to be superseded by newer message. [\d\-]+T[\d:]+\+00:00 Currently fixed: human-readable sender. RSMC Tokyo - Typhoon Center Human-readable headline, preferably shorter than 160 letters. 160 Human-readable description. ! element "instruction" not used. Link to web resource. Currently fixed. http://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/index.html ! element "contact" not used. - element parameter[1] RSMC Tokyo's internal identification number of the tropical cyclone. Note: if you are looking for the number associated with name, use parameter[@valueName = 'TC_CycloneID'] instead. TC_Number 9999 parameters See parameter.xsl for contents ! element "resource" not used. area description - element area[1] estimated position of the tropical storm (shown as point regardless its confidence) -?\d+\.\d,-?\d+\.\d 0 - element area[position()>1] storm warning (if any) and gale warning (shown as circles, which may be biased from the centre) -?\d+\.\d,-?\d+\.\d \d+ - element area[1] forecast position of the tropical storm (shown as circle of 70% probability) -?\d+\.\d,-?\d+\.\d \d+