WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION COMMISSION FOR BASIC SYSTEMS JOINT MEETING OF EXPERT TEAM ON DATA REPRESENTATION AND CODES and COORDINATION TEAM ON MIGRATION TO TABLE DRIVEN CODE FORMS
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Report of the meeting
Report of the meeting (word) and Annexes (word, pdf) |
Reference documents
Report of the Meeting of the Expert Team on Data Representation and Codes (ET/DR&C), EUMETSAT, 23-27 April 2007 (word) (PDF) |
Operational Codes Tables and additions for validation or pre-operational |
Annex 3 (Edition16) to the Convention on International Civil Aviation Amendment 74 |
CBS Ext. 06 statements and recommendations: on Migration |
Documents
1. |
ORGANIZATION OF THE MEETING |
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1.1 |
Opening of the meeting |
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1.2 |
Approval of the agenda |
Secretariat |
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1.3 |
Working arrangements for the meeting |
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2. |
GRIB 2 CODE FORM |
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2.1 |
Additions
or modifications to GRIB 2 |
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2.2 |
Report
on production and experimental or operational exchanges of fields in GRIB2
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Yves
Pelletier |
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BUFR AND CREX |
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3.1 |
Review of Descriptors awaiting Validation for becoming Pre-Operational |
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3.1.1 | For reporting correctly radiation | Doc. 3.1.1(1) | Eva Cervena |
3.1.2 | Template for synoptic reports from sea stations suitable for ship observation data from VOS stations | Doc. 3.1.2(1) | Eva Cervena |
3.1.3 | For Air Chemistry | Doc. 3.1.3(1) | Yves Pelletier |
3.1.4 | IEEE representation (for BUFR Edition 5) | Doc. 3.1.4(1) | ECMWF |
3.1.5 | Templates for surface observations from one-hour period and from n-minute period with national and WMO station identification | Doc. 3.1.5(1) | Eva Cervena |
3.1.6 | Merged” AWS BUFR template for surface observations from one-hour period and for reporting SYNOP data in BUFR |
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3.1.6(1)
Doc. 3.1.6(1)ADD. 1 |
Eva Cervena |
3.1.7 | Template for buoy and wave data, BATHY and TESAC data | Doc. 3.1.7(1) | IOC |
3.1.8 |
CREX
templates for tide elevation - DART - Sea level data |
Doc.
3.1.8(1)
Doc. 3.1.8(2) |
Kelvin Wong Kelvin Wong |
3.1.9 | Template for synoptic reports from fixed land stations suitable for SYNOP data and for maritime data from coastal and island stations | Doc. 3.1.9(1) | Eva Cervena |
3.1.10 | EUCOS template for representation of radiosonde data with geopotential height as the vertical coordinate | Doc. 3.1.10(1) | Eva Cervena |
3.1.11 | For passive remote sensing by star occultation | ||
3.1.12 | New descriptors for GFA (Graphical Forecast AIRMET) data | Doc. 3.1.12(1) | Jeff Ator |
3.1.13 | Entries for volume (3-D) radar data | Doc. 3.1.13(1) | Sibylle Krebber |
3.1.14 | For the encoding of the JASON2 OGDR data | Doc. 3.1.14(1) | EUMETSAT |
3.1.15 | Proposal for WAVEOB data | Doc. 3.1.15(1) | Weiqing Qu |
3.1.16 | Proposal for Universal BUFR template for representation of Lightning data | Doc. 3.1.16(1) | United Kingdom |
3.2 |
CREX
SYNOP for West Africa |
Secretariat |
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3.3 |
New additions for satellite data |
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3.3.1 | CGMS/WMO Task Force on Satellite Data Codes | Report(pdf) | Simon Elliott |
3.3.2 | Designation of sub-centres (Common Table C-12) for RARS system | Doc. 3.3.2(1) | Jérome Lafeuille |
3.3.3 | SMOS satellite data | Doc. 3.3.3(1) | ECMWF |
3.3.4 | GOME Ozone data | Doc. 3.3.4(1) | Jeff Ator |
3.3.5 |
Other
needed additions for satellite data Table B and D entries for encoding of IASI principal component scores Table B and Table D entries for encoding of enhanced data from IASI Satellites with no entries in Common code table C5 |
Doc. 3.3.5(1) Doc. 3.3.5(2) Doc. 3.3.5(3) |
EUMETSAT EUMETSAT Stan Kellett |
3.4 |
Master table for oceanographic data |
Doc. 3.4(1) | IOC |
3.5 |
Other BUFR/CREX needed additions or corrections |
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New entries in Code table 0 08 002 | Doc. 3.5(1) | Eva Cervena | |
Height of base of cloud | Doc. 3.5(2) | Eva Cervena | |
Representation of UV radiation data | Doc. 3.5(3) | Eva Cervena | |
Notes for non SI Units in BUFR for aviation Codes and in CREX | Doc. 3.5(4) | Secretariat | |
New descriptors for surface aviation observation | Doc. 3.5(5) | Yves Pelletier | |
Representation of wind directionat locations within 1˚ of Poles | Doc. 3.5(6) | Eva Cervena | |
Correction of BUFR preoperational code tables for SBUV2 data | Doc. 3.5(7) | Jeff Ator | |
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Possible revisions to BUFR Guide |
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MODIFICATIONS TO TRADITIONAL ALPHANUMERIC CODES |
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4.1 |
Matters for METAR; TAF |
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Proposal for clarification of METAR/SPECI Regulations | Doc. 4.1(1) | Eva Cervena | |
ICAO requirements | Doc. 4.1(2) | ICAO | |
Inclusion of definitions of Prevailing visibility and Visibility in Manual on Codes | Doc. 4.1(3) | Eva Cervena | |
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Other Matters |
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Proposal for modification of Regulation 12. 4. 10. 1 | Doc. 4.2(1) | Eva Cervena | |
ICAO requirement for ROFOR (Route forecast for aviation) | Doc. 4.2(2) | ICAO | |
Adjustment to WMO Manual or ICAO Annex 3? | Doc. 4.2(3) | Secretariat |
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MANUAL ON CODES |
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5.1 |
Review of the procedures for adoption of changes to Manual on Codes, including validation processes |
Secretariat |
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5.2 | Electronic form of Manual | Doc. 5.2(1) | Secretariat |
6. | INFORMATION ON OUTCOME OF ET/ADRS MEETING | Draft Report | Fred Branski, Simon Elliott |
BUFR in UML - Similarity to ISO 19100 Geographic Information Standards | Doc. BUFR in UMLRev. 1 (pdf) | Gill Ross | |
Routemap to drive ISO models from BUFR | ISOfromBUFR.ppt | Gill Ross | |
7. | REVIEW STATUS OF MIGRATION TO WMO TDCF | ||
7.1 | Information sharing - Status | Doc. 7.1(1) | Secretariat |
- Secretariat activities (web site. migration guidance document) | Guidance document | Secretariat | |
Members actions |
Doc. 7.1(2)Rev.1 Doc. 7.1(3)Rev.1 Doc. 7.1(4) Doc. 7.1(5) Doc. 7.1(6)Rev.1 |
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Cervena Eva Cervena Yves Pelletier Fang Zhao William Chillambo |
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National training | |||
7.2 |
Results of Questionnaire on Migration |
Secretariat |
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7.3 |
Review migration matrix |
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7.4 |
Matters to be solved |
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8. | TASKS FOR MIGRATION | ||
8.1 |
Facilitation of operational Implementation and pre-operational testing |
Writing BUFR templates(pdf) |
Yves Pelletier |
8.2 |
How to perform more training? |
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8.3 |
Implementation of Pilot Projects |
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8.4 |
Migration Implementation Programmes (MIPs) |
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8.5 | Review of the Migration Plan | ||
Review of the migration plan in view of ICAO requirements | Doc. 8.5(1) | ICAO | |
Review of the migration plan | Doc. 8.5(2) | Secretariat |