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On 11 November 2014 ECMWF started assimilating a subset of the high resolution reports (about 16 stations from Europe plus some ASAP ships). After 21 November some of the ASAPs (those starting ASDE and ASEU) also research vessel DBLK stopped reporting in TEMP SHIP format, they are now only available in BUFR format. We understand that some NWP centres are not yet in a position to assimilate BUFR radiosonde data, although they are working on this.
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