AUGUST 2015
- 2015/08/14 - Announcement - Almost all VOS observations are now sent in BUFR (TM308009) onto the GTS, either as native or as the result of a FM13 SHIP to BUFR conversion. The new template (TM308014) is still under evaluation but should be applied to VOS data in 2016.
- 2015/08/14 - Announcement - Joubeh, NDBC and JMA are not sending BUFR messages fitted with template TM315009 onto the GTS yet.
- 2015/08/12 - Announcement - Buoy identifiers are still wrong in BUFR messages produced by CLS (TM315009). CLS now plans not to stop the distribution of FM18 BUOY messages before the beginning of 2016.
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JULY 2015
- 2015/0507/15 - Announcement - By mid-July, it seems that Joubeh (CWAO), NDBC (IOBX01 KWBC) and JMA (RJTD) did not produce BUFR data for drifting buoys with official WMO template TM315009 yet. However, these data should represent less than 10% of the whole drifting buoy data.
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