ddb.kishou.go.jp to be decommissioned soon

As I wrote before, the website ddb.kishou.go.jp is planned to be deocmmissioned shortly, due to its migration into WIS.  Here's summary of instructions for migration:

• Global Spectral Model forecasts
• General guide [PDF] 
• Equivalent GRIB messages are available at GISC Tokyo
• Model description and verification results 
• On-demand GrADS picture drawing is decommissioned; NMHSs in Asia-Pacific regions are suggested to contact JMA for more modern SWFDP
• Climate Products: all moved to Tokyo Climate Center
• RTH Tokyo operational information: moved to GISC Tokyo

netCDF-C 4.3 RC2 released

There was an announcement from Unidata:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/archives/netcdfgroup/2013/msg00127.html

 

CMake for Windows sounds great, though I haven't tried it yet.

WMO Core metadata profile v1.3 is now online

There was an announcement (http://goo.gl/AyKtN) from the WMO secretariat
that the version 1.3 of the WMO Core Metadata profile to ISO 19115 is now
available online: http://wis.wmo.int/2012/metadata/.



Just for my record....



Title: WCMP v1.3 Specification Part 1 – Conformance Requirements

URL:
http://wis.wmo.int/2012/metadata/WMO_Core_Metadata_Profile_v1.3_Specification_Part_1_v1.0FINALcorrected.pdf

Size: 297572

MD5: ccf036c7a4acd4dad67587adf6796c49

Date: 2013-01-15




Title: WCMP v1.3 Specification Part 2 – Abstract Test Suite, Data Dictionary
and Code Lists

URL:
http://wis.wmo.int/2012/metadata/WMO_Core_Metadata_Profile_v1.3_Specification_Part_2_v1.0FINAL.pdf

Size: 218077

MD5: 2ee503ba6111c38682903eb847f5f865

Date: 2013-02-04



Title: Manual on WIS amendment related to WCMP, and Management Procedure of
WCMP

URL:
http://wis.wmo.int/2012/metadata/WMO_Core_Profile_1-3_ManagementProcedurest-AfterCBS15.pdf#page=3

Size: 126334

MD5: c44df3ce1603e879debdc6a06c854c62

Date: 2012-09-21



URL: http://wis.wmo.int/2012/metadata/validationTestSuite/

Desc: empty directory where validation tools are to be placed



Please note that above documents may be corrected (in editorial level). The
correction should be posted at
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/WIS/wiswiki/tiki-index.php?page=IPET-MDIchanges#Editorial_Changes_to_version_1.3

NetCDF CF Conventions are now OGC standard

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced that they approved the
Climate and Forecast (CF) conventions of netCDF as their standard.



http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/archives/galeon/2013/msg00002.html



Congratulations!

[wis sync monitor] Beijing listing updated

If you are carefully watching my WIS sync monitor
https://twitter.com/wissync
you might noticed that the differences between the record counts for the set
WIS-GISC-BEIJING among GISCs are significantly reduced. On 15Z yesterday
all diffs are tens of thousands (23701, 23701, 61244, 61130 in
http://toyoda-eizi.net/za/hist2013W05.zip/20130207T15/DIFF.html), now they
are one order smaller (3437, 3330, 1221, 1070 in
http://toyoda-eizi.net/za/hist2013W05.zip/20130208T06/DIFF.html).

That is due to (past poor) maintenance of the monitoring system.

I'm only doing "incremental harvesting" from Beijing OAI-PMH server, since
full download needs too much time. That should work, but sometimes fails to
keep past records (in my side) or fails to harvest updates. I'm also
running automatic diff-harvester triggered from the monitor, and these days
it starts deleting records from WIS-GISC-BEIJING at GISC Tokyo database.
I've checked it really does the right thing, and the diff is updated as a
result. Sorry for poor maintenance these days.

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.