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In order to encode meteorological observations in BUFR format, first thing to do is to decide which BUFR template we should use. This can be done by investigating WMO BUFR Table D which provides information on list of common sequences. For example, let’s assume we want to BUFR encode sub-hourly data from an automatic weather station. As you can see from the below given screenshot of Table D, the suitable template for this is 3 07 092 which is BUFR template for surface observations from n-minute period.
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