Patent ID: 7945355

Claim:
A method comprising the steps of providing data related to wind, and sending data related to wind to a subscriber, wherein the step of providing data related to wind comprises providing a wind data set including wind data of a plurality of positions, and in that the method further comprises the steps of receiving data for a predicted airplane trajectory, providing, based on the wind data set, a set of wind data elements, each including data concerning wind at a position along the predicted airplane trajectory, selecting from the set of wind data elements a subset of wind data elements, creating, based at least partly on the selected subset of wind data elements, a wind profile along the predicted airplane trajectory, comparing the wind profile to the set of wind data elements, repeating the steps of selecting a subset of wind data elements, creating a wind profile, and comparing the wind profile to the set of wind data elements, and selecting to be sent to the subscriber a subset of wind data elements based at least partly on which a wind profile was created corresponding to the largest extent to the set of wind data elements, wherein the step of sending data related to wind to the subscriber comprises sending to the subscriber the subset of wind data elements selected to be sent.