IPET-DRC-II

Second meeting of the INTER-PROGRAMME EXPERT TEAM ON DATA REPRESENTATION AND CODES
(Brasilia, Brazil, 31 August - 3 September 2010)

 

Report  of the meeting

Second meeting of the Inter-Programme Expert Team on Data Representation and Codes (IPET-DRC)


Reference documents

First meeting of the Inter-Programme Expert Team on Data Representation and Codes (IPET-DRC)

Introduction of the Manual on Codes, Vol. I.1 and Vol. I.2

Outcomes of sessions of the Executive Council and the Commission for Basic Systems related to data representation

Activities of the Expert Team on Operational Data Representation (CBS/CAeM-ET-ODR) - CAeM-XIV/PINK 7(2)

 

Documentation (last update: 26 August 2010)

Agenda item

Title

Document
No.

Submitted by

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Information for participants

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List of participants

 1

ORGANIZATION OF THE MEETING

   

   1.1

   Opening of the meeting

   

   1.2

   Approval of the agenda

Doc 1.2(1) r1
Doc 1.2(2) r1

Secretariat

   1.3

   Working arrangement

   

 2

GRIB

   

   2.1

   Status of proposals at or before the IPET-DRC-I

Doc 2.1

Secretariat

   2.2

   Amendments to GRIB (common aspects)

   

      2.2(1)

   GRIB Calendar Identification

Doc 2.2(1) r1

Richard Weedon

       

   2.3

   Additions and modifications of templates and tables

   

      2.3(1)

      Encoding wave spectra in GRIB Edition 2

Doc 2.3(1)

Sibylle Krebber

      2.3(2)

      Waves parameters

Doc 2.3(2)

Enrico Fucile

      2.3(3)

      GRIB2 parameters for Fire Weather Products

Doc 2.3(3) r1

Jeff Ator

      2.3(4)

      GRIB Variable GRID Definition Templates

Doc 2.3(4)

Richard Weedon

      2.3(5)

      Logarithmic hybrid coordinate

Doc 2.3(5)

Yves Pelletier

      2.3(6)

      GRIB2 parameters for Climate Forecast Products

Doc 2.3(6)

Jeff Ator

      2.3(7)

      GRIB2 parameters for Ice Analysis and Forecasting Products

Doc 2.3(7)

Yves Pelletier

      2.3(8)

      GRIB2 parameters for Storm Prediction

Doc 2.3(8) r1

Jeff Ator

      2.3(9)

      Generalized vertical height coordinate in GRIB Edition 2

Doc 2.3(9)

Sibylle Krebber

      2.3(10)

      New entries in Code Table 4.7 - Derived forecast

Doc 2.3(10)

Sibylle Krebber

      2.3(11)

      Issues for Representing Space Weather in GRIB2

Doc 2.3(11)

Jeff Ator

      2.3(12)

      Proposal for coding radioisotopes in GRIB2

Doc 2.3(12)

Sibylle Krebber

      2.3(13)

      How to code precipitation amounts in GRIB2 or clarification of the application of statistical processing

Doc 2.3(13)

Sibylle Krebber

       

 3

BUFR AND CREX

   

   3.1

   Status of proposals at or before the IPET-DRC-I

Doc 3.1

Secretariat

   3.2

   Amendments to BUFR/CREX (common aspects)

   

      3.2(1)

     Versioning of BUFR and CREX tables

Doc 3.2(1)

Secretariat

      3.2(2)

     A new entry in Specifications of octet contents

Doc 3.2(2)

Eva Cervena

       

   3.3

   Additions and modifications of tables

   

      3.3(1)

      Withdrawal of SIGMET templates proposed for validation

Doc 3.3(1)

Simon Elliott

      3.3(2)

      National data in templates for surface observations

Doc 3.3(2)

Yves Pelletier

      3.3(3)

      A proposal for Universal BUFR template for representation of Lightning data Formulated in June 2010

Doc 3.3(3)

Richard Weedon

      3.3(4)

      Update from JCOMM on developments of BUFR templates, including template for XBT data

Doc 3.3(4)

Hester Viola

      3.3(5)

      Revision of sub-categories for ozone data, including telecommunication headers

Doc 3.3(5)

Eva Cervena

      3.3(6)

      Entries in Common Code table C-4 for a recording type

Doc 3.3(6) r1

Hester Viola

      3.3(7)

      Entries in Common Code table C-5 for multiple satellite products

Doc 3.3(7)

Simon Elliott

      3.3(8)

      BUFR/CREX descriptors related to AWS

Doc 3.3(8)

Eva Cervena

      3.3(9)

      Descriptors for all sky radiance

Doc 3.3(9)

Simon Elliott

      3.3(10)

      Amendments to the Class 00 and use of UTF-8

Doc 3.3(10)

Secretariat

      3.3(11)

      Validation of EUCOS BUFR template for representation of radiosonde data

Doc 3.3(11)

Eva Cervena

      3.3(12)

      Examples of usage TM 307093 for representation of nominal values

Doc 3.3(12)

Eva Cervena

      3.3(13)

      Proposal for modifications/additions related to representation of nominal values

Doc 3.3(13)

Eva Cervena

      3.3(14)

      New BUFR descriptors for ATMS data

Doc 3.3(14)

Jeff Ator

      3.3(15)

      New BUFR code table entries

Doc 3.3(15)

Jeff Ator

      3.3(16)

      New BUFR descriptors for VIIRS data

Doc 3.3(16)

Jeff Ator

      3.3(17)

      New BUFR/CREX Class 0 descriptors

Doc 3.3(17)

Jeff Ator

      3.3(18)

      A note to BURF/CREX descriptors 0 20 019 and 0 20 020

Doc 3.3(18)

Eva Cervena

      3.3(19)

      Change to BUFR Manual - Footnote to radiological elements -

Doc 3.3(19)

Richard Weedon

      3.3(20)

      Change to Common Code Table C-13 - Sferics -

Doc 3.3(20)

Richard Weedon

      3.3(21)

      A BUFR sequence for NWP-generated vertical profiles

Doc 3.3(21)

Yves Pelletier

      3.3(22)

      Template for representation of synoptic reports from fixed land stations in Germany

Doc 3.3(22)

Sibylle Krebber

      3.3(23)

      Development of Code table 0 20 063 – Special phenomena New Code table 0 20 112 Supplementary cloud type

Doc 3.3(23)

Sibylle Krebber

      3.3(24)

      Additional entries in code and flag tables

Doc 3.3(24)

Sibylle Krebber

      3.3(25)

      Status of existing proposals related to satellite data

Doc 3.3(25) r1

Simon Elliott

      3.3(26)

      New entry in Common Code Table C12 for COSMO

Doc 3.3(26)

Sibylle Krebber

      3.3(27)

      Additional BUFR descriptors for the Evolution of clouds and Template version, additional notes in BUFR table B

Doc 3.3(27)

Sibylle Krebber

       

   3.4

   Regulations for reporting traditional observation data in Table-Driven Code Forms (TDCF): BUFR and CREX

   

      3.4(1)

      Amendments to B/C Regulations

Doc 3.4(1)

Eva Cervena

       

   3.5

   Master tables for scientific disciplines other than meteorology

   

      3.5(1)

      Master Table 10 review and update

Doc 3.5(1)

Hester Viola

       

 4

TRADITIONAL ALPHANUMERIC CODES

   

   4.1

   Amendments to the aeronautical codes, FM15, FM16 and FM51
                                AMENDMENT 75 TO ANNEX 3

Doc 4.1
App. I, II, III

ICAO

   4.2

   Discontinuation of the monthly upper-air CLIMAT TEMP reports

Doc 4.2

Secretariat

   4.3

   Past weather reporting in hourly synoptic observation

Doc 4.3

Eva Cervena

       

 5

MIGRATION TO TABLE DRIVEN CODE FORMS (TDCF)

   

   5.1

   Migration status

   

      5.1(1)

      Result of WWW Monitoring

Doc 5.1(1)

Secretariat

      5.1(2)

      Status of the national plans for the migration to TDCF and step-by -step migration by zone

Doc 5.1(2)

Secretariat

      5.1(3)

      DCP migration to RARS-IGDDS-IG4_DCP-TDCF

Doc 5.1(3)

Secretariat

      5.1(4)

      Report on Migration to Table-driven Code Forms in RA VI

Doc 5.1(4)
Add.1(8 Aug)

Eva Cervena

      5.1(5)

      U.S.A. migration status

Doc 5.1(5)

Jeff Ator

      5.1(6)

      Status of the migration to TDCF in Canada and related activities

Doc 5.1(6)

Yves Pelletier

      5.1(7)

      Migration activities within South and East Africa (From September, 2009)

Doc 5.1(7)

William Chillambo

      5.1(8)

      Activities in Migration to Table Driven Code Forms in Germany, 2010

Doc 5.1(8)

Sibylle Krebber

      5.1(9)

      Status of the migration to TDCF in RA II

Doc 5.1(9)
Annex

Akira Nakamori

      5.1(10)

      Migration plan (Brazil)

Doc 5.1(10)

Jose Mauro Rezende

      5.1(11)

      Migration status and activities of CMA

Doc 5.1(11)

Fang Zhao

      5.1(x)

      (Activities by members of IPET-DRC)

   
       

   5.2

   Request from the CBS MG-XI on MTDCF

Doc 5.2

Secretariat

   5.3

   Encoder software for BUFR/CREX available for MTDCF

Doc 5.3

Secretariat

       

 6

MANUAL ON CODES

   

   6.1

   Electronic publication of the Manual on Codes, including database

Doc 6.1
Annex

Secretariat

   6.2

   Procedures for amending the Manual on Codes

Doc 6.2
Annex I, II

Secretariat

       

 7

COLLABORATION WITH OTHER CBS TEAMS

   

   7.1

   Collaboration with the Inter-Programme Expert Team on Metadata and Data Interoperability (IPET-MDI): Report of the first meeting of IPET-MDI and WIGOS standardization framework for data and associated metadata (referred by para. 3.2 of the report)

 

Secretariat

   7.2

   Corrected and delayed reports in BUFR bulletins

Doc 7.2

Eva Cervena

   7.3

   Migration of OPMET data
                                Report of 12th meeting of METG

   

   7.4

   Converting BUFR to a canonical XML

Doc 7.4
Presentation

Gil Ross

       

 8

CLOSURE OF THE MEETING