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| Volume A - Observing Stations |
Amendments to Volume A
Temporary Changes
Notification
from Portugal (METNO
A2403):
Station 08579 -Lisbon resumed programme of one daily sounding at 12 UTC effective 30 May
2003
Notification from Egypt:
Due to circumstances the hours of operation for station 62332 - Port Said/El
Gamil has changed from 2400 hrs to 1200 hrs as from 1 July 2003 (METNO
A2703)
Stations 62378, 62414, 62306 will amend the
program of upper-air observations to 1200 UTC and stations 62337, 62403, 62423 to 0000 UTC
as from 17 May 2003 to 30 September 2003 (METNO
A2103).
Notification from Turkmenistan (METNO
A2103):
Station 38507 upper-air observations will be suspended due to lack of radiosondes.
Global
practices - Changes to codes
The amendments to Table Driven Codes approved
by CBS to be operational on Wednesday 5 November 2003 have been included
in the WMO web server BUFR, CREX and GRIB 2 Code tables.
The
proposed changes to Codes can be found in the WMO Web server at:
http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/documents.html#CodeTables
Under
the heading "WMO Codes and Representations" you can select any
of the files which are listed :
Operational
Codes:
2003
July - BUFR and common code tables (from
WMO Pub. 306)
2003 July -
WMO CREX Tables (from WMO Pub.
306)
1994 May - Guide to WMO Binary Code Form GRIB 1 (WMO TD-No. 611)
2003 July - FM92 GRIB Edition 2 (from
WMO Pub. 306)
2003
April - Guide to FM92 GRIB Edition 2 (Word97)
For
additional information on code matters contact: Joël
Martellet.
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Publication No. 9 -
Volume C1 "Catalogue of Meteorological Bulletins"
The following
updates are available on the WMO server:
RTH Offenbach
EDZW702o.txt and ED06702o.txt (2 July 2003). Modifications to Oslo,
Norway - Metno MC2803.txt
RTH Tokyo:
RJ01715P.txt (15 July 2003) and RJTD717P.txt (17 July 2003).
New bulletins added to Tokyo, Japan - see Metno MC2903
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