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Although never validated by WMO, a template has been widely used for many years. It should be now replaced by TM315009 recently validated. GTS headers for ship data start with character string 'IOB'.
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Drifting buoy BUFR data - Survey on October 12th, 2014
(Data received and processed at Meteo-France - 12 October 2014)
| CCCC | Data Prodider | FM94-BUFR | Template | FM18 BUOY only | FM13 SHIP only | Remark |
| CWAO | Joubeh | 3 | Buoy (not validated) | 89 | 0 | BUFR or FM18 |
| KARS | CLS America | 1066 | Buoy (not validated) | 0 | 0 | |
| KWBC | Pacific Gyre | 22 | Buoy (not validated) | 0 | 0 | BUFR only |
| KWNB | NDBC | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| LFPW | Meteo-France | 252 | Buoy (not validated) | 0 | 0 | |
| LFVW | CLS Toulouse | 15 | Buoy (not validated) | 0 | 0 | |
| RJTD | JMA | 6 | Buoy (not validated) | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 1364 | 90 | 1 | 1455 buoys in all |
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