JMA to change forecast range and header of Tropical Cyclone Track Forecast

WMO Operational Newsletter:

Notification from Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)
As from 00 UTC on 01 August 2018, JMA will begin to distribute Tropical Cyclone Track Forecast Bulletins with extended forecast range up to 132 hours ahead. This extension is accompanied by the extension of JMA's Global Spectral Model (GSM) forecast range for the initial time of 00, 06 and 18 UTC since June 5 this year, and will be applied to bulletins with headers of FXPQ2i (i=0~5). In addition, the bulletins for the western North Pacific and the South China Sea produced from the Global Ensemble Prediction System (GEPS) of JMA, currently sharing the header with the bulletins from GSM, will be issued with a new header of FXPQ3i (i=0~5).

 The track forecasts of deterministic GSM for this region will continue to be provided with the current FXPQ2i header.
 
Published: 17 July 2018

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High Resolution Radiosonde data from JMA

This data is also available at GISC Tokyo Portal.  Note that the category is "Empty or Invalid" for technical limitation.

IUKC60 example:
https://www.wis-jma.go.jp/data/browse?ContentType=HTML&Indicator=RJTD&LinkText=IUKC60

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Notification from Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)
As from 05 July 2018, JMA will begin to distribute High Resolution Radiosonde data in WMO official BUFR template TM309052 and the sequence 3 01 128 under the WMO headers IU[K,S]C[60-75] RJTD.

 The current TEMP BUFR messages converted from TAC reports, distributed under the headers IUSC[01-12] RJTD, will terminate after the migration to the bulletins for the users.

Japan High Resolution Radiosonde data reports / FM94 BUFR:

TTAAii CCCC WMO Station Index Number
IU[K,S]C60 RJTD 47401 (WAKKANAI)
IU[K,S]C61 RJTD 47412 (SAPPORO)
IU[K,S]C62 RJTD 47418 (KUSHIRO)
IU[K,S]C63 RJTD 47582 (AKITA)
IU[K,S]C64 RJTD 47600 (WAJIMA)
IU[K,S]C65 RJTD 47646 (TATENO)
IU[K,S]C66 RJTD 47678 (HACHIJOJIMA)
IU[K,S]C67 RJTD 47741 (MATSUE)
IU[K,S]C68 RJTD 47778 (SHIONOMISAKI)
IU[K,S]C69 RJTD 47807 (FUKUOKA)
IU[K,S]C70 RJTD 47827 (KAGOSHIMA)
IU[K,S]C71 RJTD 47909 (NAZE/FUNCHATOGE)
IU[K,S]C72 RJTD 47918 (ISHIGAKIJIMA)
IU[K,S]C73 RJTD 47945 (MINAMIDAITOJIMA)
IU[K,S]C74 RJTD 47971 (CHICHIJIMA)
IU[K,S]C75 RJTD 47991 (MINAMITORISHIMA)
 
Published: 11 June 2018

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