tricky switching of Meteosat 9 to 10...

Meteosat 10 will be brought to full operation next Monday. First of all,
congratulations!

This means the products are also going to be changed.
http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/Satellites/SP_2012113011418367?l=en

One tricky thing is BUFR messages on GTS ``swap'' headings. So far headings
starting with "IU" (IUVA01 EUMG for example) is Meteosat 9 and "IW" for
Meteosat 10 (I don't see such bulletins though). After 09UTC Monday, "IU"
will stand for Meteosat 10 and "IW" for Meteosat 9.

If your upstream GTS centres relay only "IU" messages, you will lose
Meteosat 9 bulletins. That may be issue if your usage is sensitive to
satellite/sensor code written inside BUFR.

WMO Core Metadata Profile V1.3 approved

The version 1.3 of the WMO Core Metadata Profile has been approved by the latest meeting of PTC (Presitends of Technical Commissions) Monday: http://goo.gl/QfHG8

This is a profile to the international standard of geographical metadata ISO 19115/19139, to be used in context of data catalogue of WIS (WMO Information System).

Please refer to http://goo.gl/L9HlK for the latest text that passed CBS.

latest text (CBS recommendation) of WMO Core Metadata Profile v1.3

So sorry for late announcement: it should have been posted public to be basis of discussion.....

 

In this September, WMO/CBS has recommended the WMO Core Metadata Profile (WCMP) version 1.3 in its fifteenth session. 

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9zHt7XJp45Ta3I3SWFRbWN0TVk

 

Even though it has to be approved by PTC and Excecutive Council before formally taking force, but discussion on the WCMP is starting up, and people have to refer to this as the base version.

 

WMO Codes updated: Fast Track 2012bis & Inter-CBS 2012

Effective 7th November 2012,  two sets of amendments to WMO's Manual on Codes are operational:

 - 2nd fast track procedure in 2012

 - inter-sessional procedure in 2012

 

Private notes on the changes:

http://redmine.toyoda-eizi.net/projects/wmocodes/activity

Changes to Tsunami-related msgs by NOAA/WCATWC eff Nov1 2012

There was NOAA notice:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notification/scn12-33atwc_products.txt

It says:
- two bulletin headers are discontinued (WEPA43 and WEXX22 PAAQ) and others
(WEPA41 WEXX20 WEAK51 WEXX30 WEAK53 WEXX32 SEAK71 SEUS71 SEXX60 WEPA43 and
WEXX22 PAAQ) will be sent in newer format.
- details will be http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/ExampleProducts

All above-mentioned messages are disseminated internationally and found at
GISC Tokyo.
http://www.wis-jma.go.jp/data/browse?Indicator=PAAQ

migration of DDB (distributed database) service of JMA to GISC Tokyo

Since (I think) 1997, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) operated a server
http://ddb.kishou.go.jp/ as a part of DDB (distributed database), which was
a subprogramme of WWW (World Weather Watch) of WMO (World Meteorological
Organization).

More than a decade has passed, and now the infrastructure of WMO programmes
has been reorganized into WIS (WMO Information System). JMA has been
operating GISC Tokyo http://www.wis-jma.go.jp/cms/ since August 2011,
together with TCC (Tokyo Climate Center)
http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/index.html .

The hardware for the "ddb" server will be decommissioned at the end of
February 2013. But most of services are already available also at GISC
Tokyo or TCC. Users are advised to migrate old URL to new ones. Please
check actual pages in http://ddb.kishou.go.jp/ for detailed migration
instruction.

Termination of direct broadcasting to MDUS and SDUS Users via MTSAT

There was a news release dated 3 September.
http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/jma-eng/satellite/nmhs/transition.html

The release links to a PDF including details of the product of Himawari-8
and 9.