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IPET-CM-I

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End date
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Geneva, Switzerland

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WMO Codes

First meeting of the INTER-PROGRAMME EXPERT TEAM ON CODES MAINTENANCE
(Geneva, Switzerland, 24 - 28 July 2017)
Contact points in the WMO Secretariat: Atsushi Shimazaki

 

Report of the meeting

First meeting of the Inter-Programme Expert Team on Codes Maintenance (IPET-CM-I)
           Summary / Annex / Appendix


Reference documents

Report of Past meetings
Procedures for amending WMO Manuals and Guides that are the responsibility of the Commission for Basic Systems (Rec, 15 (CBS Ext. (2014)/Res. 21 (Cg-17)/Res. 12 (EC-68))/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 21/07/2017)

FORM 1
 Documentation Form
FORM 2
 Form for conclusion of past proposals (Agenda 6.x)
INF. 1
 List of participants
INF. 2
 Supporting structure (TC representatives and secretariat concerned)
INF. 3
 Local times
INF. 4
 Allocated GRIB/BUFR/CREX tables entires    
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 MANUAL ON CODES: TABLE-DRIVEN CODE FORMS  
     FM 92 GRIB  
   2.1    Amendments to GRIB regulations  
       (to be submitted by participants)  
 
     
   2.2    Additions to GRIB templates and tables  
       New GRIB2 Code table 4.2 entries
Jeffrey Ator
       New GRIB Code Table 4.2 entry
Enrico Fucile
       New GRIB2 Code table 4.2 entries
Yves Pelletier
       (to be submitted by participants)  
 
     
     FM 94 BUFR/FM 95 CREX  
   2.3    Amendments to BUFR/CREX regulations  
       (to be submitted by participants)
 
  
     
   2.4    Additions to BUFR/CREX tables  
       New BUFR entries for GPM precipitation data
Jeffrey Ator
       New BUFR entries for radiosonde descent data
Tanja Kleinert (EUMETNET), Alexander Cress, Sibylle Krebber (DWD)
       New BUFR entries for FY-3 VASS Products
Songlin Jia, Lei Xue, Gang Ma (China), Fang Zhao
       BUFR template for surface observations from n-minute period
Tanja Kleinert (EUMETNET), Sibylle Krebber
       New BUFR sequence for describing satellites contributing to an observed geophysical quantity Doc 2.4(5)
Simon Elliott, Daniel Lee (EUMETSAT)
       (to be submitted by participants)    
     
     Common Code tables to binary and alphanumeric codes  
   2.5    Additions to Common Code tables  
       New Common Code table C-12 entries for CIMSS
Jeffrey Ator
       New Common Code table entries for Spire Global, Inc.
Jeffrey Ator
       New entries in Common Code tables C-5 and C-8 by India
Secretariat
       Common Code table for master table version numbers of GRIB, BUFR and CREX
Secretariat
       New entries to Common Code Table C-3 / BUFR Table 0 22 067 for Argo floats Doc 2.5(5) David Berry
       New Common Code table entries in C-5 and C-8 for FY-4A
Fang Zhao, Sujuan Wang (China)
       New entry in Common Code Table C-5 to include satellite identifier for Sentinel 3B Doc 2.5(7) Simon Elliott, Daniel Lee (EUMETSAT)
       (to be submitted by participants)    
     
     New editions of Table-Driven Code Forms  
   2.6    GRIB edition 3    
       Templates and Templates components for time intervals
Enrico Fucile
       Parameters table
Enrico Fucile
       Amendments to current version of GRIB edition 3
Shahram Najm (ECMWF)
       Template for Gaussian and other grids
Enrico Fucile
       Template for unstructured mesh
Enrico Fucile
       Horizontal domain URL
Enrico Fucile
       Overlay Template URL
Enrico Fucile
       Vertical Domain template and template component for model levels
Enrico Fucile
       Template for irregular grid
Enrico Fucile
       Templates for spherical harmonics
Enrico Fucile
     
   2.7    BUFR and CREX new editions  
       
     
 3 MANUAL ON CODES: REGULATIONS FOR REPORTING TRADITIONAL OBSERVATION DATA IN TABLE-DRIVEN CODE FORMS  
   3.1    Amendments to B/C Regulations for ...
 
  
       Regulations for radiosonde descent data
Tanja Kleinert (EUMETNET), Alexander Cress, Sibylle Krebber (DWD)
       Regulations for reporting SHIP data in TDCF (B/C10)
David Berry
       Implementation of the Decision 15 of EC-69 regarding the International Exchange of Snow Data Doc 3.1(3) Secretariat
     
 4 MANUAL ON CODES: TRADITIONAL ALPHANUMERIC CODES  
   4.1    Possible amendments that result from Amendment 78 to ICAO Annex 3
Doc 4.1
 
     
 5 MANUAL ON THE GTS: DATA DESIGNATOR  
   5.1    Amendments to Attachment II-5, Manual on the GTS (Data Designators T1T2A1A2ii) for ...
Doc 5.1
  
     
 6 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION OF PROPOSALS  
   6.1    Summary on amendments since IPET-DRMM-IV
Secretariat
     
     Conclusion on past proposals other than those in Doc. 6.1 above (in lieu of PFC)  
   6.2    GRIB  
       (to be submitted by participants)
 
  
   6.3    BUFR/CREX  
       BUFR template for reporting observations from offshore platforms (3 08 017)
David Berry
       (to be submitted by participants)    
   6.4    Common Code tables  
       (to be submitted by participants)
 
  
     
 7 LIST OF AMENDMENTS BY FAST-TRACK  
   7.1    Drafting of list of amendments by fast-track (FT2017-2)
Doc 7.1
Secretariat
     
 8 MIGRATION TO TABLE-DRIVEN CODE FORMS  
   8.1    Comparison of the number of reports received in TADF and TAC during April 2017
Secretariat
      
   8.2    Reports by members on status of migration  
     8.2.1      Status of migration in RA I
Lemkhenter Abderrazak
     8.2.2      Status of migration to TDCF in RA II
Shuichi Ikeda, Jitsuko Hasegawa
       Activities on the MTDCF in China
Fang Zhao, Lei Xue (China)
     8.2.3      Status of migration in RA III
Sergio Henrique S. Ferreira, Jose Mauro de Rezende
     8.2.4      Status of migration in RA IV    
       Availability of high-resolution radiosonde data from U.S.A.
Jeffrey Ator
       Status of the migration to TDCF in Canada Doc 8.2.4(2)rev Yves Pelletier
     8.2.5      Status of migration in RA-V    
       TDCF Migration for Hi-Res Radiosonde and Houlry SYNOP data from Australia Yang Wang
     8.2.6      Status of migration in RA VI
 
  
     8.2.7      Status of migration to TDCFs within JCOMM David Berry
     
 9 PUBLICATION  
   9.1    Additional columns for element descriptions in machine readable TDCF tables
Secretariat
     
 10 IPET-CM AND TASK TEAMS  
   10.1    IPET-CM and establishment of task teams
Secretariat
     
11 COLLABORATION WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND TECHNICAL BODIES  
   11.1    Report from CBS-MG Task Team on Upper Air BUFR (TT-UABUFR)
Secretariat
   11.2    Implementation of the WIGOS Station Identifiers
Richard Weedon
   11.3    XML parsing in decoding systems Doc 11.3
Markus Heene, Gregor Schnee (DWD), Sibylle Krebber
   11.4    Implications for the CM Team of provision of the WMO Codes Registry Doc 11.4
Mark Hedley (UKMO), Richard Weedon
     
12 CLOSURE OF THE MEETING