World Meteorological Organization

09:00

1.        OPENING OF THE SESSION

09:00

          1.1.       Welcome

09:15

          1.2.       Working arrangements

09:20

          1.3.       Introduction of participants

09:35

          1.4.       Approval of the agenda

1.4

09:45

2.        STATUS OF DBNET REGIONAL NETWORK COMPONENTS AND SERVICES

09:45

2.1.    Asia-Pacific

09:45

2.1.1. Météo-France (Gilles Montesquieu)

2.1.1

10:00

2.1.2. IMD (Ashim Kumar Mitra)

2.1.2

10:15

2.1.3. KMA (Taekyu Jang - remotely)

2.1.3

10:30

Group photo & Coffee break

11:00

2.1.4. CMA (Siwei Tian - remotely)

2.1.4

11:15

2.1.5. JMA (Toshiyuki Kitajima)

2.1.5

11:30

2.1.6. BoM (Robert Pipunic)

2.1.6

11:45

2.1.7. NIWA (Simon Wood)

2.1.7

12:00

2.2.   EARS, incl partner stations: EUMETSAT (Nick Coyne)

2.2

12:20

Lunch break

13:20

2.3.   South America

13:20

2.3.1. Argentina (Paula Hobouchian)

A5.1. SMN/CONAE to consider upgrading the high latitude stations (Tierra del Fuego and/or Marambio) to contribute to DBNet 

2.3.1

13:35

2.3.2. Brazil (Renato Galante Negri- remotely)

2.3.2

13:50

2.4. NOAA, incl partner stations: CIMSS (Liam Gumley)

2.4

14:10

2.5. Canada (ECCC) (Matt Arkett)

2.5

14:25

2.6. Roshydromet (Sergey Uspensky)

2.6

14:40

2.7. Monitoring by NWP/SAF: MetOffice
(Nigel Atkinson / Elisabeth Nolland - remotely)

A.5.3. Provide feedback on traffic light tools for data outages and data consistency as well as email alerts planned by NWPSAF

2.7

15:10

Coffee break

15:40

2.8. Discussion on network status and plans and operational issues

2.8a

2.8b

16:00

3.        EVOLUTION OF SERVICES AND NETWORK

16:00

3.1.   DBNet services: timeliness requirements
(WMO, Mikael Rattenborg)

3.1

16:20

3.2.   SAWIDRA – Africa (ACMAD, Ali Ahmed Abani)

3.2

16:40

3.3.   NOAA/NESDIS progress on implementing VIIRS cluster statistics within CrIS field-of-view (NOAA, Lihang Zhou)

3.3

17:00

End of Day 1

09:00

3.   EVOLUTION OF SERVICES AND NETWORK (cont.)

09:00

3.4.    MWRI & HIRAS: discussion
(CMA, Shengli Wu - remotely & DBNet-CG members)

A.3.3. Define descriptors for MWRI and HIRAS 

3.4

09:20

3.5. Other potential services: open discussion

09:40

4      DBNet IMPLEMENTATION

09:40

4.1      Direct Broadcast

09:40

4.1.1   Review of satellite priorities at stations
(WMO, Mikael Rattenborg)

4.1.1

10:00

4.2     Processing software, status of L0/L1 packages

10:00

4.2.1   CSPP (CIMSS, Liam Gumley)

4.2.1

10:20

Coffee break

10:50

4.2.2    AAPP (NWP/SAF, Nigel Atkinson - remotely)

4.2.2

11:10

4.2.3   FY3L0pp and FY3L1pp (CMA, Chengli Qi - remotely)

4.2.3

11:30

4.2.4   Discussion of processing software issues

4.2.4

11:50

4.3     Processing system

11:50

4.3.1   Feasibility of FY-3 cloud-based processing
(CMA, Siwei Tian - remotely)

A5.7. EUM and CMA (with the possible involvement of BoM) to investigate the potential use of the public DB cloud platform (introduced by CMA), covering all the aspects relevant to DBNet: providing data to a cloud, pre-processing, product generation, data distribution as well as integration into DBNet  

4.3.1

12:10

4.3.2   Follow up on action A5.7 (EUMETSAT/BoM)

12:30

Lunch break

13:30

4.3.3   Discussion of processing system issues

4.3.3

13:50

4.4     Planning (DB services on planned satellite systems)

13:50

4.4.1   FY-3E/F/G (CMA, Jing Wang - remotely)

4.4.1

14:10

4.4.2   JPSS-2 (NOAA, Lihang Zhou)

A4.16. Provide one page on Orbital upgrade for JPSS-2

4.4.2a
4.4.2b

14:30

4.4.3   Metop-SG

14:30

4.4.3.1 Metop-SG (EUMETSAT, Nick Coyne)

4.4.3.1

14:50

4.4.3.2 NWP SAF’s support for Metop-SG

(NWP SAF, Nigel Atkinson - remotely)

4.4.3.2

15:10

Coffee break

15:40

5.   DBNet DOCUMENTS REVISION

15:40

5.1        WMO Community web page: DBNet updates
(WMO, Zoya Andreeva)

A5.10. WMO (in cooperation with NWP SAF) to revise the content of the DBNet-CG webpage (including some relevant sections from the DBNet Guide, taking into account possible overlaps with NWP SAF webpage)  

15:50

5.2     Status of DBNet Article Draft (WMO, Mikael Rattenborg)

A3.7. Prepare first version of DBNet article for publication in a journal (tbd) and in the WMO Bulletin

16:10

6.        COORDINATION

16:10

6.1      DBNet Coordination Group membership (DBNet-Coord) (WMO, Zoya Andreeva)

16:15

6.2      Operational points of contacts (DBNet-OPS)
(WMO, Zoya Andreeva)

16:20

6.3      Other groups (ITWG, IROWG, CGMS, NOAA HRD user group)

16:30

6.4      Summary of GODEX-NWP-5

16:45

6.5     DBNet-CG Engagement in the Region via SDR-RA-III-IV Mechanism (SDR-RA-III/IV Co-Chairs, Diego Souza, Marcial Garbanzo-Salas)

6.5

17:00

End of Day 2

09:00

4.       DBNet IMPLEMENTATION (cont’d)

09:00

4.5     Dissemination

09:00

4.5.1   The use of CCCC groups in GTS bulletin headers (EUMETSAT, Simon Elliott)

A5.8. Any DBNet operator experiencing duplicated bulletin headers to contact regional GISC for allocation of CCCC groups per station and then follow the steps required by WMO to implement that (incl. informing the WIS team via email: wis@wmo.int) to avoid the issue of ambiguous identification of data on the GTS (i.e. bulletin headers are generated more than once with the same name) 

4.5.1

09:20

4.5.2 Transition from GTS to WIS 2.0

A5.5. To investigate the feasibility of providing full channel set for hyperspectral IR sounders from DBNet (also considering different dissemination methods)

A5.6. To discuss definition of “super subset” of HSIR channels for DBNet  

A5.9. To organise a follow up discussion on the potential WIS 2.0 implementation aspects related to DBNet needs to better understand challenges, volume of the datasets for exchange as well as timeliness  

09:20

4.5.2.1 Introduction to WIS 2.0 (WMO, Hassan Haddouch)

4.5.2.1

09:50

4.5.2.2 WIS2 data flow for DBNet (EUMETSAT, Simon Elliott)

4.5.2.2

11:00

4.5.2.3 Follow up discussion

10:30

Coffee break

11:00

7.      AOB

11:20

8.       CONCLUSION

11:20

8.1     DBNet priorities

11:40

8.2     Action review

8.2

12:10

8.3     Next meeting (intersessionals, DBNet-CG-7)

8.3

12:30

End of Day 3 and Adjourn