8th DBNet Coordination Group Meeting (DBNet-CG-8)
Date & Time
9-10 December 2025 13:00 - 16:00 CET, online
Provisional agenda
| TUESDAY 9 December 2025 | Documents | |
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| 13:00 | 1. OPENING OF THE SESSION | |
| 13:00 | 1.1 Welcome from DBNet-CG Chair (Liam Gumley, CIMSS, SSEC, UW Madison) | |
| 13:05 | 1.2 Approval of the agenda | Doc 1.2 |
| 13:10 | 2. STATUS OF DBNET REGIONAL NETWORK COMPONENTS AND SERVICES, INCLUDING WIS 2.0 IMPEMENTATION A7.1 DBNet station operators: to initiate migrating existing DBNet datasets from GTS to WIS 2.0 via contacting their GTS entry points. DBNet operators who are not aware of their GTS entry points should contact Simon (EUM) for information | |
| 13:10 | 2.1 Météo-France (Olivier Membrive) | Doc 2.1 |
| 13:20 | 2.2 India | |
| 13:20 | 2.2.1 IMD (Ashim Kumar Mitra) | |
| 13:25 | 2.2.2 NCMRWF (Srinivas Desamsetti) | |
| 13:30 | 2.3 KMA (Dae-gyeom Jeon / Hyunju Yoo) | Doc 2.3 |
| 13:40 | 2.4 CMA (Yang Lei) A7.2 CMA: to advance DBNet products (FY-3 data) from Chinese DB stations to be shared with the global NWP community via WIS 2.0 | |
| 13:50 | 2.5 HKO (Alan WH Tang) | Doc 2.5 |
| 13:55 | 2.6 NEA (Kaiyuan ZHENG) | Doc 2.6 |
| 14:00 | 2.7 JMA (Toshiyuki Kitajima) | Doc 2.7 |
| 14:10 | 2.8 BoM (Stephen Haynes) | |
| 14:20 | 2.9 NIWA (Simon Wood) | |
| 14:30 | 2.10 Canada (ECCC) (Matt Arkett/Denis Poliquin) | |
| 14:40 | 2.11 EARS, incl partner stations (EUMETSAT, Nick Coyne) | |
| 14:50 | 2.12 Argentina (SMN, Paula Hobouchian) A6.20 SMN: to consider making impact studies on the usage of DBNet products in the regional NWP systems to feed into the DBNet article (A.3.7) as well as share this information with DBNet-CG | |
| 15:00 | 2.13 Brazil (INPE, Renato Galante Negri) | |
| 15:10 | 2.14 NOAA, incl partner stations: CIMSS (CIMSS, Liam Gumley) | |
| 15:20 | 2.15 SAWIDRA – Africa (ACMAD, Ali Ahmed Abani) | Doc 2.15 |
| 15:35 | 3. Dissemination | |
| 15:35 | 3.1 Overall update on WIS 2.0 implementation (Simon Elliot, EUMETSAT) | |
| 15:45 | 3.2 Follow-up discussion | |
| 16:00 | End of Day 1 | |
| WEDNESDAY 10 December 2025 | Documents | |
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| 13:00 | 4. UPDATES FROM NWP SAF | |
| 13:00 | Monitoring by NWP/SAF (Elisabeth Nolland, Nigel Atkinson, MetOffice) | |
| 13:20 | 5 DBNet IMPLEMENTATION | |
| 13:20 | 5.1 Satellite priorities | |
| 13:20 | Review of satellite priorities at stations (WMO, Mikael Rattenborg) | |
| 13:40 | 5.2 Processing software, status of L0/L1 packages | |
| 13:40 | 5.2.1 CSPP (CIMSS, Liam Gumley) | |
| 14:00 | 5.2.2 AAPP (NWP SAF, Elisabeth Nolland, Nigel Atkinson) | |
| 14:10 | 5.2.3 FY3L0pp and FY3L1pp, incl. FY-3 cloud-based processing (CMA, Yang Lei) | |
| 14:30 | 5.2.4 Discussion of processing software/system issues | |
| 14:40 | 5.3 Planning (DB services on planned satellite systems) | |
| 14:40 | 5.3.1.1 Metop-SG (EUMETSAT, Nick Coyne) A7.4 EUM: to provide documentation on specifications of Metop-SG software to process from VCDU to Level-0 data. Additional information is required to process data from raw data to VCDU. | |
| 14:50 | 5.3.1.2 Metop-SG processors testing (NWP SAF, Elisabeth Nolland, Nigel Atkinson) | |
| 15:00 | 5.3.2 AWS PFM/EPS-Sterna (EUMETSAT, NWP SAF) | |
| 15:20 | 6. DBNet Guide | |
| 15:20 | DBNet Guide update (WMO Secretariat) A6.19. DBNet-CG: to update the DBNet Guide limiting it to a more static content, and transfer the more dynamic information of the Guide to the WMO community web page | |
| 15:40 | 7. CONCLUSION | |
| 15:40 | 7.1 Action review | Doc 7.1 |
| 15:55 | 7.2 Next meetings | |
| 16:00 | End of Day 2 and Adjourn | |