Joint Meeting of ET-DRC and CT-MTDCF

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

Report of the meeting

Report of the meeting (word) and Annexes (word, pdf)

Reference documents

Report of the Meeting of the Expert Team on Data Representation and Codes (ET/DR&C), EUMETSAT, 23-27 April 2007 (word) (PDF)

Operational Codes Tables and additions for validation or pre-operational

Annex 3 (Edition16) to the Convention on International Civil Aviation Amendment 74

Ext. 06 statements and recommendations: on Migration

Documents

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

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