World Meteorological Organization

WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION

COMMISSION FOR BASIC SYSTEMS
OPAG on ISS

JOINT MEETING OF EXPERT TEAM ON DATA REPRESENTATION AND CODES and COORDINATION TEAM ON MIGRATION TO TABLE DRIVEN CODE FORMS

Geneva, 1-5 September 2008

1397. Ext. 06 statements and recommendations:   on Migration

1.

ORGANIZATION OF THE MEETING

1.1

Opening of the meeting

1.2

Approval of the agenda

Doc.  1.2(1)
Doc.  1.2(2)

Secretariat
Secretariat

1.3

Working arrangements for the meeting

2.

GRIB 2 CODE FORM

2.1

Additions or modifications to GRIB 2
GRIB 2 Event probabilities
New GRIB2 table entries for atmospheric particulates
New GRIB2 table entries for QPF data
New GRIB2 table entries for WAFS data
New GRIB2 table entries chemicals and aerosols
New GRIB2 grid definition template for irregular lat/long grid
New GRIB2 templates for Categorical forecast data
New GRIB2 template for atmospheric aerosols
New GRIB2  table entries
Definition of a new Product Definition Template
GRIB2  for general unstructured grids
GRIB2 new compression method � CCSDS szip
GRIB2  for paleo climate

Doc. 2.1(1)
Doc. 2.1(2)
Doc. 2.1(3)
Doc. 2.1(4)
Doc. 2.1(5)Rev.1
Doc. 2.1(6)
Doc. 2.1(7)
Doc. 2.1(8)
Doc. 2.1(9)
Doc. 2.1(10)
Doc. 2.1(11)
Doc. 2.1(12)
Doc. 2.1(13)

ECMWF
Jeff Ator
Jeff Ator
Jeff Ator
ECMWF
ECMWF
ECMWF
ECMWF
DWD
DWD
DWD
DWD
DWD

2.2

Report on production and experimental or operational exchanges of fields in GRIB2 
Operational production of GRIB 2 data at the Canadian Meteorological Centre

Doc. 2.2(1)
 

Yves Pelletier
 

3.

BUFR AND CREX

3.1

Review of Descriptors awaiting Validation for becoming Pre-Operational

3.1.1

For reporting correctly radiation

Doc. 3.1.1(1)

Eva Cervena

3.1.2

Template for synoptic reports from sea stations suitable for ship observation data from VOS stations

Doc. 3.1.2(1)

Eva Cervena

3.1.3

For Air Chemistry

Doc. 3.1.3(1)

Yves Pelletier

3.1.4

IEEE representation (for BUFR Edition 5)

Doc. 3.1.4(1)

ECMWF

3.1.5

Templates for surface observations from one-hour period and from n-minute period with national and WMO station identification

Doc. 3.1.5(1)

Eva Cervena

3.1.6

Merged� AWS BUFR template for surface observations from one-hour period and for reporting SYNOP data in BUFR

Doc. 3.1.6(1)
Doc. 3.1.6(1)ADD. 1

Eva Cervena

3.1.7

Template for buoy and wave data, BATHY and TESAC data

Doc. 3.1.7(1)

IOC

3.1.8

CREX templates for tide elevation - DART
                                                 - Sea level data

Doc. 3.1.8(1)
Doc. 3.1.8(2)

Kelvin Wong
Kelvin Wong

3.1.9

Template for synoptic reports from fixed land stations suitable for SYNOP data and for maritime data from coastal and island stations

Doc. 3.1.9(1)

Eva Cervena

3.1.10

EUCOS template for representation of radiosonde data with geopotential height as the vertical coordinate

Doc. 3.1.10(1)

Eva Cervena

3.1.11

For passive remote sensing by star occultation

3.1.12

New descriptors for GFA (Graphical Forecast AIRMET) data

Doc. 3.1.12(1)

Jeff Ator

3.1.13

Entries for volume (3-D) radar data

Doc. 3.1.13(1)

Sibylle Krebber

3.1.14

For the encoding of the JASON2 OGDR data

Doc. 3.1.14(1)

EUMETSAT

3.1.15

Proposal for WAVEOB data

Doc. 3.1.15(1)

Weiqing Qu

3.1.16

Proposal for Universal BUFR template for representation of Lightning data

Doc. 3.1.16(1)

United Kingdom

3.2

CREX SYNOP for West Africa
      Comments
CREX  SYNOP  MESSAGE  FOR  RA1 (AFRICA)

Doc. 3.2(1)
Doc. 3.2(1)ADD1
Doc. 3.2(2)Rev.1

Secretariat
Mr Chouaibou GUEYE
William Chillambo

3.3

New additions for satellite data

3.3.1

CGMS/WMO Task Force on Satellite Data Codes

Report(pdf)

Simon Elliott

3.3.2

Designation of sub-centres (Common Table C-12) for RARS system

Doc. 3.3.2(1)

J�rome Lafeuille

3.3.3

SMOS satellite data

Doc. 3.3.3(1)

ECMWF

3.3.4

GOME Ozone data

Doc. 3.3.4(1)

Jeff Ator

3.3.5

Other needed additions for satellite data
Table B and D entries for encoding of IASI principal component scores
Table B and Table D entries for encoding of enhanced data from IASI
Satellites with no entries in Common code table C5

Doc. 3.3.5(1)

Doc. 3.3.5(2)

Doc. 3.3.5(3)
 

EUMETSAT

EUMETSAT

Stan Kellett
 

3.4

Master table for oceanographic data

Doc. 3.4(1)

IOC

3.5

Other BUFR/CREX needed additions or corrections

New entries in Code table 0 08 002   

Doc. 3.5(1)

Eva Cervena

Height of base of cloud

Doc. 3.5(2)

Eva Cervena

Representation of UV radiation data

Doc. 3.5(3)

Eva Cervena

Notes for non SI Units in BUFR for aviation Codes and in CREX

Doc. 3.5(4)

Secretariat

New descriptors for surface aviation observation

Doc. 3.5(5)

Yves Pelletier

Representation  of wind directionat locations within 1˚ of Poles

Doc. 3.5(6)

Eva Cervena

Correction of BUFR preoperational code tables for SBUV2 data

Doc. 3.5(7)

Jeff Ator

3.6

Possible revisions to BUFR Guide

4.

MODIFICATIONS TO TRADITIONAL ALPHANUMERIC CODES

4.1

Matters for METAR; TAF

Proposal for clarification of METAR/SPECI Regulations

Doc. 4.1(1)

Eva Cervena

ICAO requirements

Doc. 4.1(2)

ICAO

Inclusion of definitions of Prevailing visibility  and Visibility in Manual on Codes

Doc. 4.1(3)

Eva Cervena

4.2

Other Matters

Proposal for modification of Regulation 12. 4. 10. 1

Doc. 4.2(1)

Eva Cervena

ICAO requirement for ROFOR (Route forecast for aviation)

Doc. 4.2(2)

ICAO

Adjustment to WMO Manual or ICAO Annex 3?

Doc. 4.2(3)

Secretariat

5.

MANUAL ON CODES

5.1

Review of the procedures for adoption of changes to Manual on Codes, including validation processes

Doc. 5.1(1)
Doc. 5.1(2)Rev.1

Secretariat
Secretariat

5.2

Electronic form of Manual

Doc. 5.2(1)

Secretariat

6.

INFORMATION ON OUTCOME OF ET/ADRS MEETING

Draft Report

Fred Branski, Simon Elliott

BUFR in UML - Similarity to ISO 19100 Geographic Information Standards

Doc. BUFR in UMLRev. 1 (pdf)

Gill Ross

Routemap to drive ISO models from BUFR

ISOfromBUFR.ppt

Gill Ross

7.

REVIEW STATUS OF MIGRATION TO WMO TDCF

7.1

Information sharing - Status

Doc. 7.1(1)

Secretariat

- Secretariat activities (web site. migration guidance document)

Guidance document

Secretariat

Members actions

Doc. 7.1(2)Rev.1
Doc. 7.1(3)Rev.1
Doc. 7.1(4)
Doc. 7.1(5)
Doc. 7.1(6)Rev.1

Eva Cervena
Eva Cervena
Yves Pelletier
Fang Zhao
William Chillambo

National training

7.2

Results of Questionnaire on Migration

Doc. 7.2(1)

Secretariat

7.3

Review migration matrix

7.4

Matters to be solved

8.

TASKS FOR MIGRATION

8.1

Facilitation of operational Implementation and pre-operational testing
A Primer on Writing BUFR templates

Writing BUFR templates(pdf)

Yves Pelletier

8.2

How to perform more training?

8.3

Implementation of Pilot Projects

8.4

Migration Implementation Programmes (MIPs)

8.5

Review of the Migration Plan

Review of the migration plan in view of ICAO requirements

Doc. 8.5(1)

ICAO

Review of the migration plan

Doc. 8.5(2)

Secretariat