IPET-DRMM-II

Second meeting of the INTER-PROGRAMME EXPERT TEAM ON DATA REPRESENTATION MAINTENANCE AND MONITORING
(College Park, MD, USA, 28 April - 2 May 2014)
Contact points in the WMO Secretariat: Atsushi Shimazaki

 

Report of the meeting

Second meeting of the Inter-Programme Expert Team on Data Representation Mainteance and Monitoring (IPET-DRMM-II) / Annex


Reference documents

Report of Past meetings
Procedures for Amending the Manual on Codes, 1 July 2013
Outcomes of the sixteenth World Meteorological Congress (Cg-XVI) related to data representation

 

Documentation (last updates: 14 May 2014)

FORM 1
Documentation Form
FORM 2
Form for conclusion of past proposals (Agenda 4.2)
INF. 1
Information for participants
INF. 2
List of participants
Agenda item
Title
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 1 ORGANIZATION OF THE MEETING  
   1.1    Opening of the Meeting  
   1.2    Approval of the Agenda Secretariat
   1.3    Working Arrangement    
 2 GRIB  
   2.1    Amendments to GRIB (Regulations and structure)  
     2.1(1)      Arakawa grids in GRIB2 Jeff Ator
     2.1(2)      GRIB encoding of the beginning of overall time interval in the past Doc 2.1(2) Manuel Werner,
Sibylle Krebber
     
   2.2    Additions and modifications of templates and tables  
     2.2(1)      New parameters and fixed surface types to represent ground surface
     conditions in analyses or models
Yves Pelletier
     2.2(2)      A product definition template for statistics over an ensemble
Yves Pelletier
Benoit Archambault
     2.2(3)      New parameters and table entries for GRIB Enrico Fucile
     2.2(4)      Update for distribution template Doc 2.2(4)
Annex 1
Michael Baldauf,
Sibylle Krebber
     2.2(5)      Review of GRIB templates for spatio-temporal changing tiles Doc 2.2(5) Sibylle Krebber,
Dörte Liermann
     2.2(6)      Review of GRIB tables for spatio-temporal changing tiles Doc 2.2(6) Sibylle Krebber,
Dörte Liermann
     2.2(7)      Octets of forecast time in product definition template 4.44   Enrico Fucile
     2.2(8)      New entries in GRIB2 Code table 4.3   Simon Elliott
       
   2.3    Development of GRIB new edition    
    2.3(1)      Progress on GRIB edition 3    
     
 3 BUFR AND CREX  
   3.1    Amendments to BUFR/CREX (Regulations and structure)  
     3.1(1)      New Common Code Table C-15: Physical quantity kinds Enrico Fucile,
Jeremy Tandy
     3.1(2)      Clarification of Regulation 94.1.5 Eva Cervená,
Pål Sannes
     3.1(3)      Creation of a new BUFR Table B class for marine data Richard Weedon,
JCOMM
     3.1(4)      Reporting of zero snow depth Doc 3.1(4) Richard Weedon,
Samantha Pullen
     
   3.2    Additions and Modifications of Tables  
     3.2(1)      Additional Common Code Table Entries and BUFR Table B Entries
     for Satellite Data
CGMS TF-SDC
     3.2(2)      BUFR sequence for snow observations
Doc 3.2(2)
Att. 1, 2
ECMWF, Météo-France, NOAA, Environment Canada, Univ. Waterloo, WMO, Icelandic Met Office
     3.2(3)      Reporting daily climate extrema in BUFR Jeff Ator
     3.2(4)      New BUFR descriptors for OMPS total column data Jeff Ator
     3.2(5)      New BUFR template for SARAL Altika data Enrico Fucile,
Simon Elliott
     3.2(6)      New BUFR elements for satellite data Enrico Fucile
     3.2(7)      BUFR template for n-minute AWS data (3 07 092) Richard Weedon
     3.2(8)      Revised BUFR sequence for synoptic reports from sea stations suitable
     for VOS observation data
JCOMM
     3.2(9)      Proposed BUFR sequence for reporting observations from offshore
     platforms
JCOMM, UKMO
     3.2(10)      Proposed modifications to the BUFR template for reporting data from
     Argo profiling floats
JCOMM, UKMO
       
   3.3    Development of BUFR/CREX new edition    
     3.3(1)      Progress on BUFR edition 5
 
Yves Pelletier
       
   3.4    Master tables for scientific disciplines other than
   meteorology
   
     
 4 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION OF PROPOSALS  
   4.1    Summary on Amendments after IPET-DRMM-I Secretariat
       
   4.2    Conclusion on Past Proposals    
     4.2.1       GRIB2    
     4.2.2       BUFR/CREX    
     4.2.3       Common Code tables
 
 
              Report for conclusion (RFC) - 1 RFC 4.2.3.1 Simon Elliott
     
 5 REGULATIONS FOR REPORTING TRADITIONAL OBSERVATION DATA IN TABLE-DRIVEN CODE FORMS (TDCF): BUFR OR CREX  
   5.1(1)    Clarifications of B/C 30 and B/C 32 Regulations Eva Cervená
     
 6 TRADITIONAL ALPHANUMERIC CODES  
   6.1    Initial proposals for Amendment 77 to ICAO Annex 3, with intended
   applicability in November 2016
Doc 6.1 ICAO
     
 7 MIGRATION TO TABLE DRIVEN CODE FORMS (TDCF)  
   7.1    Status of Migration by WWW Monitoring Exercise Secretariat
        
   7.2    Status of Migration in Regions    
     7.2(1)      Status of migration in RA I
Samuel Machua
     7.2(2)      Status of migration in RA II Jitsuko Hasegawa
     7.2(3)      Status of migration in RA III
José Mauro de Rezende
     7.2(4)      Status of migration in RA IV
Yves Pelletier,
Jeff Ator
     7.2(5)      Status of migration in RA-V Weiqing Qu
     7.2(6)      Status of migration in RA VI
Eva Cervená
     Actions taken for Migration by Members or organizations    
     7.2(7)      MTDCF-related training activity in RA III and IV Yves Pelletier
     7.2(8)      MTDCF-related training activity in Francophone Africa Yves Pelletier
     7.2(9)      Status of migration to TDCFs within JCOMM Doc 7.2(9) JCOMM
       
   7.3    Issues for Migration to TDCF
 
Secretariat
     
 8 MANUAL ON CODES  
   8.1    Lessons from amendments during intersessional period Secretariat
     
 9 WMO STANDARD DATA DESIGNATORS  
   9.1    New Abbreviated Headings
 
 
     9.1(1)    Allocation of GTS abbreviate bulletin deaders for satellite sata Doc 9.1(1) Simon Elliott
     
10 TASKS AND STRUCTURE OF IPET-DRMM  
   10.1    New Task Team TT-AvCI - membership and work plan Secretariat
     
11 COLLABORATION WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND TECHNICAL BODIES  
   11.1    Proposals to CBS Extraordinary Session (CBS Ext. (2014) Secretariat
   11.2    WIGOS Station Identifier Secretariat
   11.3    Site Positions and Instrument heights in BUFR metadata Doc 11.3 Richard Weedon
   11.4    National Climate Monitoring Products (NCMP) PM 11.4 CCl
     
12 CLOSURE OF THE MEETING