IPET-DRMM-IV

Fourth meeting of the INTER-PROGRAMME EXPERT TEAM ON DATA REPRESENTATION MAINTENANCE AND MONITORING
(Geneva, Switzerland, 30 May - 3 June 2016)
Contact points in the WMO Secretariat: Atsushi Shimazaki

 

Report of the meeting

Fourth meeting of the Inter-Programme Expert Team on Data Representation Maintenance and Monitoring (IPET-DRMM-IV)
           Summary / Annex


Reference documents

Report of Past meetings
Procedures for maintaining Manuals and Guides managed by the Commission for Basic Systems, 1 January 2016/Interpretation by IPET-DRMM-III
Outcomes of the sixteenth World Meteorological Congress (Cg-XVI) related to data representation
All assigned entries of GRIB, BUFR and CREX including those for validation

 

Documentation (last updated 27/05/2016)

FORM 1
Documentation Form
FORM 2
Form for conclusion of past proposals (Agenda 4.2)
INF. 1
Hotels in Geneva/Visitors' information
INF. 2
List of participants
INF. 3
Supporting structure (TC representatives and secretariat concerned)
Agenda item
Title
Document
No.
Submitted by
 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  
       (to be submitted by participants)
 
 
     
 
     
   2.2    Additions to and modifications of templates and tables  
     2.2(1)      New parameter for tropical cyclone forecasts
Jeffrey Ator
     2.2(2)      New GRIB template for post-processed NWP output Doc 2.2(2),
Doc 2.2(2r)
Samples
Enrico Fucile, Shahram Najm, (ECMWF), Fredrik Wetterhall (ECMWF)
     2.2(3)      New GRIB table entries (unbalanced components) Doc 2.2(3)
Enrico Fucile, Sebastien Villaume (ECMWF), Elias Holm (ECMWF)
     2.2(4)      Amendments in Common Table C-14 for Pollen, new parameters in Table 4.2 and new entries in Table 4.5 Doc 2.2(4)
Jochen Förstner (DWD), Sibylle Krebber, Dörte Liermann (DWD) Heike Vogel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
     2.2(5)      New generating process and common codes to represent wildfire-driven pollution in air quality models Doc 2.2(5)
Yves Pelletier, Paul-André Beaulieu (Canada)
     2.2(6)      Update of GRIB2 new compression method – CCSDS libaec Doc 2.2(6)r
Daniel Lee (DWD), Sibylle Krebber
     2.2(7)      New ensemble templates and one ensemble template correction Doc 2.2(7)
Sibylle Krebber, Dörte Liermann (DWD)
     2.2(8)      Encoding fields from Limited Area models combining conformal projections and bi-periodic spectral geometry Doc 2.2(8)
Philippe Marguinaud (France)
     2.2(9)     New table entries for GRIB2 to represent GRAPES model products Doc 2.2(9)
Yingjie CUI(CMA), Fang ZHAO
       (to be submitted by participants)
 
 
 
       
   2.3    GRIB new edition    
    2.3(1)     GRIB edition 3 Doc 2.3(1)
Present,
Reg-r,
Spec-r,
Template-r, Code/Flag-r
Enrico Fucile, Sebastien Villaume (ECMWF), Shahram Najm (ECMWF), Kevin Marsh (ECMWF)
     
 3 BUFR AND CREX  
   3.1    Amendments to BUFR/CREX regulations  
     3.1(1)      Specifying the operands of a multivariate operator
Yves Pelletier
       (to be submitted by participants)
 
 
     
   3.2    Additions to and modifications of tables  
     3.2(1)      New entry in common code table C-2 by Switzerland and Kazakhstan
Secretariat
     3.2(2)      New entries for dropsonde data
Jeffrey Ator
     3.2(3)      New entries in Common Tables C-5 and C-8 Doc 3.2(3)
Enrico Fucile, Simon Elliott
     3.2(4)      New BUFR elements for C-band synthetic aperture radar  instrument (C-SAR) Doc 3.2(4)
Sample
.bufr / .txt
Marijana Crepulja (ECMWF), Enrico Fucile, Saleh Abdalla (ECMWF), Nuno Miranda (ESA)
     3.2(5)      Comments from Czech Republic Doc 3.2(5)
Secretariat
     3.2(6)      BUFR Sequence for synoptic reports from sea stations suitable for VOS observation data (editorial changes) Doc 3.2(6)
David Berry
     3.2(7)      Additional bio-geochemical sequences for data from Argo profiling floats Doc 3.2(7)
David Berry, Jon Turton (UKMO)
     3.2(8)      New entries in Common Code Table C-5 Doc 3.2(8)
Jeffrey Ator
     3.2(9)      Revised and additional new descriptors for radar data products Doc 3.2(9)
Michael Mott (DWD), Sibylle Krebber
     3.2(10)      Revised note for encoding geographic coordinates in BUFR and new element descriptors for encoding coordinate reference systems and fixed reference mean sea level Doc 3.2(10)
Sibylle Krebber, Alexander Kats
     3.2(11)     Development of a LIDAR & Ceilometer Table D Sequence Doc 3.2(11)
Richard Weedon, Myles Turp (UKMO), Alexander Haefele, Maxime Hervo (MeteoSwiss), Volker Lehmann (DWD)
     3.2(12)      Radiosounding meta-data reporting: clarifications and amendments required Doc 3.2(12)
Doc 3.2.12a
Doc 3.2.12b
Alexander Kats
     3.2(13)      Reporting of meaurement uncertainties in BUFR Doc 3.2(13) Alexander Kats
       (to be submitted by participants)    
       
   3.3    BUFR and CREX new editions    
     3.3(1)      Proposed feature selection for 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-III Doc 4.1
Secretariat
       
   4.2    Conclusion on past proposals (in lieu of PFC)    
     4.2.1      GRIB2    
     4.2.1(1)         Validation report of GRIB2 new compression method – CCSDS libaec Report G1
Luis Kornblueh (MPI-M), Mathis Rosenhauer (DKRZ), Enrico Fucille, Gregor Schnee (DWD), Sibylle Krebber, Daniel Lee (DWD)
          (to be submitted by participants)  
 
     
 
     4.2.2      BUFR/CREX    
     4.2.2(1)         New BUFR elements and sequences for the reporting of Synoptic Reports from Sea Stations Suitable for VOS Data Report B1
David Berry
          (to be submitted by participants)  
 
   
 
 
     4.2.3      Common Code tables
 
 
     
 5 REGULATIONS FOR REPORTING TRADITIONAL OBSERVATION DATA IN TABLE-DRIVEN CODE FORMS (TDCF): BUFR OR CREX  
   5.1    (to be submitted by participants)
Doc 5.1
 
     
 6 TRADITIONAL ALPHANUMERIC CODES  
   6.1    Amendments that result from Amendment 77 to ICAO Annex 3 Doc 6.1
Yves Pelletier
     
 7 MIGRATION TO TABLE DRIVEN CODE FORMS (TDCF)  
   7.1    Status of migration by WWW Monitoring Exercise
Secretariat
        
   7.2    Reports by members on status of migration    
     7.2(1)      Status of migration in RA I Doc 7.2(1) Samuel Machua
     7.2(2)      Status of migration in RA II Doc 7.2(2)
Jitsuko Hasegawa
     7.2(3)      Status of migration in RA III Doc 7.2(3)
José Mauro de Rezende
     7.2(4)      Status of migration in RA IV Doc 7.2(4)
Glendell De Souza (CMO)
     7.2(5)      Status of migration in RA-V Doc 7.2(5)  
     7.2(6)      Status of migration in RA VI Doc 7.2(6) Alexander Kats
     7.2(7)      Status of migration to TDCFs within JCOM Doc 7.2(7)
Annex
David Berry
       
   7.3      TAC2BUFR Check at DWD
Andreas Gerth, Daniel Lee (DWD), Sibylle Krebber
     
 8 MANUAL ON CODES  
   8.1    Review of the Procedures for maintaining Manuals and Guides managed by CBS Doc 8.1
Annex
Secretariat
     
 9 WMO STANDARD DATA DESIGNATORS  
   9.1    Amedments to the Manual on the GTS on abbreviated headings
 
 
     9.1(1)      Data designators for aviation information in XML Doc 9.1(1)
Secretariat
     
10 IPET-DRMM AND TASK TEAMS  
   10.1    Terms of References of IPET-DRMM and Task Teams
Secretariat
     
11 COLLABORATION WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND TECHNICAL BODIES  
   11.1    Endorsement OGC document number 16-060: A GRIB2 Coverage Encoding Profile Doc 11.1
Daniel Lee (DWD)
   11.2    Issues resulting from the fourth meeting of IPET-MDRD Doc 11.2
IPET-MDRD chair
   11.3    CBS MG Task Team on representing upper air information in BUFR – Report to IPET-DRMM (May 2016) Doc 11.3
Annex
Stefan Klink (EUMETNET)
     
12 CLOSURE OF THE MEETING