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Task Team on Table Driven Code Forms (TT-TDCF)

Teleconference

  • 21 and 29 November 12-14h UTC

Agenda

  1. Opening and approval of agenda
  2. Secretariat updates
  3. Review of GRIB proposals
  4. Review of BUFR proposals
  5. Review of Common Code Tables proposals
  6. Review other proposals (if time permits)
  7. AOB

Notes

Tuesday (21 November)

  • Marijana opened the meeting
  • (Anna) - Provisional copy of the MoC vI.2 on the community website: https://community.wmo.int/en/activity-areas/wis/wis-manuals
  • team discussed proposals
    • BUFR issue 184
    • GRIB issues 173, 220, 221, 222, 224, 225. 226. 227
  • BUFR 78, 166, 180, 181, 182, 185
  • CCT 158, 160, 161, 163, 164, 166, 167, 168

Wednesday (29 November)

draft notes

  • Meeting opens

  • Secretariat announcements - Anna checked in with to make sure they could access the FT2023-2 machine-readable-codes

  • Review issues for fast-track that are not validated yet

    • CCT: #167, 169, 167, Sibylle introduced new proposal from Eumetnet (issue to be registered) for CCT-13; there was discussion about the real need for identifying re-used radiosondes, but team accepts proposal.
    • GRIB: #173, 220, 221, 224, 225, 226, 227, 229
    • BUFR: #78, 158, 166, 182, 184, 185

  • Review other issues

  • Close of meeting

Fast-track 2024-1 proposals

All notes are in the comment section of each issue.

GRIB2

  1. Updates to facilitate needs in modelling for nuclear protection #173 - Lennart/Sebastien- in validation
  2. new entry for "Convectively-induced turbulence" in Code Table 4.2 #218 - Jeff - validated
  3. Code Table 4.2 : adding new parameters #220 - Sebastien - in validation
  4. Encoding of Drought indexes as defined by WMO #221 - Sebastien - in validation
  5. new ocean and ice parameters in Code Table 4.2, Discipline 10 #222 - (Jeff) - validated
  6. new probability templates for large ensemble #224 - Sebastien - in validation
  7. new templates for probability forecasts based on focal statistics #225 - Sebastien - in validation
  8. new section 4 template for further statistics on probabilities based on focal statistics #226 - Sebastien - in validation
  9. new hydrology parameters in code Table 4.2 #227 - Sebastien - validated
  10. new fire weather parameter in Code Table 4.2, Discipline 2 #229 - Jeff - in validation

BUFR4

  1. Proposal for BUFRCREX_CodeFlag_en_40.csv #78 - Simon - in validation
  2. BUFR Table D 10, New BUFR template for satellite reflectance #158 - Marijana - in validation
  3. Code table 042017 new quality flags for wave spectra #166 - Marijana - in validation
  4. Update BUFRCREX_TableB_en_04.csv: Lidar L2b classification type #181 - Marijana - validated
  5. Update BUFRCREX_CodeFlag_en_01.csv Retrieval identifier #182 - Marijana - in validation
  6. New BUFR entries for representing ASCAT in BUFR #184 - Marijana - in validation
  7. Request for amendment to BUFR Table D, to create a new BUFR template suitable for the distribution of XCTD data #185 - in validation

CCT

  1. CCT-1 and CCT-11, new entry for AWI #158 - Sibylle - validated
  2. CCT 05, new entries to identify TEMPO satellite #159 - Marijana/Simon - validated
  3. CCT 08, new entry to identify TEMPO instrument #160 - Marijana/Simon - validated
  4. CCT 05 request to EUMETSAT, ESA, EC to identify CO2M-A satellite #161 - Marijana/Simon - in discussion
  5. CCT 05 request to identify GOSAT-2 #163 - Marijana/Simon - validated
  6. CCT 08 request to identify TANSO-FTS2 instrument #164 - Marijana/Simon - in validation
  7. CCT 02, new entries to identify RadiosondeSoundingSystems of China #166 - Shirley-Xuelei - validated
  8. CCT 05 request to add entry to identify AWS, ESA's Arctic Weather Satellite #167 -Simon - in validation
  9. Add new CCT 13 entry for radio occultation data from non-satellites #168 - Jeff - validated
  10. CCT 05 request to add entry to identify SWOT, CNES/NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite #169 - Simon - NEW

Other issues to discuss

  1. Use of GRIB and BUFR registers in codes.wmo.int #23 - closed ==> Publish BUFR, GRIB and CCT codes to the WMO Codes Registry #171 - NEW
  2. Move CCT-06 into the GitHub repository (Units) #162
  3. CCT 02 code value errors? #126 - Anna - in discussion
  4. Update broken links on WMO Community website #165 - Anna

Other issues to discuss if time is available/as needed

  1. Divide CodeFlag_4_2.csv into multiple files #163 - Anna/Sebvi - on pause until in between fast-tracks
  2. Register GRIB with IANA #175 - close? - keep open until decision is made
  3. Register BUFR with IANA #140 - close? - keep open until decision is made
  4. Use of GRIB and BUFR registers in codes.wmo.int #23 - Anna
  5. map GRIB to ISO 19111 #187 - dependant on codes registry publication
  6. Additional entry of length or number of octets in GRIB2_Template_ csv-files #219 - Sybille - to discuss between fast-tracks
  7. Retirement of CREX #180 - Anna - no work yet, to prepare for INFCOM-3

Schedule for FT2024-1

  • 15 Dec - Complete validations of proposals
  • 15 Jan - Finalize all proposals
    • Validate and document (in issues) all proposals
    • 2-week window to prepare amendments
  • 1 Feb - National Focal Point (NFP) review
    • submit amendments for endorsement and review
    • 2-month window for National Focal Point (NFP) review
  • **1 April ** - WMO Adoption Procedure
    • 1.5-month window for final WMO adoption and publication
  • **15 May ** - operational date (we are planning on releasing the machine-readable codes earlier)

see: https://github.com/wmo-im/wmo-im.github.io/wiki/Fast-Track-Schedules

Meeting schedule

AOB

List of participants

TT-TDCF Members

No. Name Agency 21 Nov 29 Nov
1 Jeffrey ATOR NOAA X
2 Marijana CREPULJA (lead) ECMWF X
3 Simon Stuart ELLIOTT EUMETSAT X
4 Sergio Henrique Soares FERREIRA National Institute for Space Research, Brazil X
5 Tom KRALIDIS Environment and Climate Change Canada
6 Sibylle KREBBER DWD x
7 Abderrazak LEMKHENTER Météo Maroc
8 Marian MAJAN HMEI
10 XUE Lei CMA X

Collaborators/Guests

Name Agency 21 29
Sébastien VILLAUME ECMWF X
Antoine MERLE EUMETSAT X
Jakub Beer HMEI
Lennart ROBERTSON SMHI X
Chris Little UK Met
Martin Desruisseaux GEOMATYS/OGC
Sebastien HANS Geosphere X
Giannokos APOSTOLOS Geosphere X

WMO Secretariat

Name 21 29
Anna MILAN X

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