[WMO] Meeting report of IPET-DRMM-III (WMO Codes team)

WMO Secretariat notified me that the meeting report of the IPET-DRMM third meeting in Beijing is now available from the meeting page at:

   https://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/ISS/Meetings/IPET-DRMM_Beijing2015/IPET-DRMM_DocPlan.html

 

[JMA] HRIT/LRIT service to be terminated December 4th - use HimawariCast instead!

http://www.data.jma.go.jp/mscweb/notice/termination_201510.html

[WMO] IPET-MDRD-3 subgroup meeting to be announced shortly

info to appear here:
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/WIS/wiswiki/tiki-index.php?page=IPET-MDRD-3

NWS to terminate FOS service! Is it the end of non-internet wire service?

US NWS has announced it will terminate FOS (Family of Services) on October 2 2015.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/dm-cgi-bin/chgshow.pl?fn=DM09-15.02.txt

It is quite surprising for me.  The deadline is so soon, but I guess NOAA has coordinated with their subscribers already, as the announcement mentions about funding from FOS customers.

FOS is going to be taken over by the Integrated Dissemination Project (IDP).   I don't know much detail about IDP's services for operational users in the private sector.  But it looks like there is going to be no land-line service other than Internet-based ones, looking at http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwws/dissemination.html

I really don't know more than that: any information is appreciated.

Atmospheric Motion Vector bullerins in BUFR from Himawari-8

The Japan Meteorological Agency has started operation of its meteorological satellite namely Himawari-8.

http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/jma-eng/satellite/news/himawari89/20150707_himawari-8_operation_initiated.pdf

There were several announcements in different channels.

- WMO/WMIOperational newsletter
  http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/ois/Operational_Information/Newsletters/current_news_en.html
- Bulletin catalogue changes
  ftp://www.wmo.ch/wmo-ddbs/OperationalInfo/VolumeC1/From_WMO/METNO/2015/MC2715.txt

Barbados Meteorological Services starts BUFR reports for CLIMAT/SYNOP/TEMP

Source: US NWS data management
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/dm-cgi-bin/chgshow.pl?fn=DM06-15.06.txt

CBS letter on migrating upper air reports to BUFR

The president of WMO/CBS (Commission for Basic Systems) has circulated a letter to WMO Members, which is available online
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/WIS/wiswiki/tiki-view_blog_post.php?postId=171

This is a historic event that a formal WMO body statement cares about usable quality of data.  For me it has been clear from the beginning that the worldwide data exchange is meaningful only if the data is usable. But not so many people cared about that historically.