OCTOBER 2015
- 2015/10/16 - Status - One may consider the migration to BUFR is ended for ship data and almost ended for drifting buoy data. Moored buoys is another story.
- 2015/10/16 - Announcement - Since yesterday, Meteo-France is producing BUFR data (template TM315008) for French waveriders. Header are IOB[A/D/E]03 LFPW.
- 2015/10/13 - Problem fixed - WMO Ids are now correct in BUFR data sent by CLS for drifting buoys (CCCC = LFVW or KARS - Template 315009). This means that 95% of the drifting buoys now report through BUFR with the right template. The migration is almost ended for this component. Data users are invited to get these data instead of FM18.
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- 2015/06/04 - Important announcement - CLS plans to stop the distribution of FM18 BUOY message in September 2015. This represents 78% of the whole drifting buoy data transmitted onto the GTS.
- 2015/06/04 - Announcement - CLS Toulouse and CLS America hencefoth produce drifting buoy BUFR following template TM315009. BUFR data following the old template and FM18 BUOY messages should be transmitted in parallel during a few months. GTS headers for the BUFR are IOBXii LFVW and IOBXii KARS. Different 'ii' are used according to the template: 05, 06, 15, 16, 17 and 18 for template TM315009; 01, 02, 03, 07, 12 and 13 for the old template.
- 2015/06/03 - Announcement - Drifting buoy BUFR data produced by Meteo-France are henceforth sent with header IOB[A-L]13 01 LFPW onto the GTS instead of IOB[A-L]0113.
- 2015/06/01 - Announcement - Drifting buoy data processed at Meteo-France now use template TM315009 instead of the never-validated WMO template for data buoys.
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