WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION
COMMISSION FOR BASIC SYSTEMS
JOINT MEETING OF CT-MTDCF / ET-DRC
MONTREAL, 8 - 12 MAY 2006 / ET /DRC 6.1(3)
ITEM:
(20.IV.2006)
ENGLISH ONLY

Information sharing

Submitted by Milan Dragosavac (ECMWF)

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Summary and Purpose of Document

The reception of some BUFR data at ECMWF is shown.

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ACTION PROPOSED

The meeting is asked to take into account this information.

Introduction

The start of the migration of observations from Migration Plan Category 1 observations for operational exchange happened on the 1st November 2005. Japan, Czech Republic, Israel and Netherlands have to be congratulated for their efforts to meet the target date and start the data insertion on GTS. As it is seen from the global data coverage charts, only few countries started operational exchange of BUFR data.

1. Data and product identification

Although ECMWF is not directly connected to the GTS, the data received form Exeter and Offenbach are GTS data. Our system shows the following bulletins received on 20060424.

Israel:

TEMP - IUSDA01 LLBD type/subtype 02/04

PILOT - IUSDA02 LLBD type/subtype 02/01

SYNOP- ISMD01 LLBD type/subtype 00/02

ISMD42 LLBD type/subtype 00/02

ISID21 LLBD type/subtype 00/01

ISID42 LLBD type/subtype 00/01

Japan:

SYNOP- ISMC01 RJTD type/subtype 00/02

ISIC01 RJTD type/subtype 00/02

SHIP ISSC01 RJTD type/subtype 01/00

ISSA02 RJTD type/subtype 01/00

ISSB02 RJTD type/subtype 01/00

ISSC02 RJTD type/subtype 01/00

ISSK02 RJTD type/subtype 01/00

TEMP - IUKC[1-6] RJTD type/subtype 02/04

IUFC[2-6] RJTD type/subtype 02/04

TEMP-SHIP IUK[A,D][10,15] RJTD type/subtype 02/05

IUF [A,D][10,15] RJTD type/subtype 02/05

A1 =F should not be used

TESAC/BATHY IOCS11 RJTD type/subtype 31/05

CLIMAT SYNOP

CLIMAT TEMP


Netherlands:

AWS ISAD40 EDBH type 0 Edition 3

USA: ISAT40 KBOU type 2 Edition 3 surface pressure, MSL pressure, RH

Czech Republic:

TEMP IUSD40 OKLI type 02 Edition 3

Jordan:

SYNOP ISMD01 OJAM problems during decoding

ISID01 OJAM problems during decoding

2. Availability of migration data and products on GTS

Data coverage of SYNOP land/ship observations


Data coverage TEMP land/ship

Buoy data from Migration Plan Category 4:

3. Encode, Decode and user interface software availability

The ECMWF BUFR and CREX software has been upgraded to handle multi subset messages using different delayed replications. The software can be downloaded as version 000300 from Ecmwf web site:

http://www.ecmwf.int/products/data/software/

The Centre is developing Java based API to view and create BUFR/CREX data which will be free software as BUFR and CREX.

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