Common Protocol Alerts

This repository contains data and exploratory tools related to the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) ecosystem, with a focus on official alerting authorities registered by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

Dataset

WMO Register of Alerting Authorities

Source: https://alertingauthority.wmo.int/rss.xml

This dataset is an index of official alerting authorities recognized by WMO members.

It does not contain live alerts.

Each record points to one or more CAP/RSS/Atom feeds where real alert messages can be retrieved.

CSV location

source/wmo-alerting-authorities.csv

Main fields

• country_code – ISO country code
• authority_name – official authority name
• authority_abbrev – short identifier
• language – feed language
• cap_feed_url – URL of the CAP/RSS feed
• area_polygon – geographic coverage (polygon)
• georss_box – geographic bounding box
• authority_record_url – WMO registry page
• last_updated – registry update timestamp

Notebooks

notebooks/explore.ipynb

The initial notebook provides:

• basic exploration
• data quality checks
• country and language coverage analysis

Scope

This repository focuses on:

• metadata
• discovery of official CAP sources
• reproducible analysis

It does not:

• mirror live alert streams
• provide real-time monitoring

Setup

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
jupyter lab