MARCH 2016 .
- 2016/03/23 - Problem - Several BUFR messages sent by CLS America under header IOBX06 KARS (among others) for drifting buoys, are segmented. However, due to a wrong use of extension '(BBB)', a part of the data are not distributed: Meteo-France does not receive them. It seems the segmentation of GTS bulletins was necessary for TAC data that could not overpass 15 kbytes. This is no more an issue with binary data which bulletins may weight 500 kbytes.
- 2016/03/18 - Announcement - All drifting buoy data are now transmitted onto the GTS in BUFR. Template TM315009 is used by almost all producing centres. SIO (IOBX01 KWBC) and JMA (IOB[A-L]01 RJTD) are still using the never validated template for about 80 and 2 buoys respectively. SIO plans to apply template TM315009 by mid-April, JMA during the second half of 2016.
- 2016/03/11 - Problem fixed - All drifting buoys processed by CLS America now send their data in BUFR (TM315009 - IOBX06 KARS).
- 2016/03/09 - Problem fixed - The dataflow from Pacific Gyre (IOBX06 KWBC), interrupted on the 28th of February, re-started.
- 2016/03/08 - Problem fixed - Joubeh reports correct BUFR data now (IOBX12 and IOBX15 CWAO).
- 2016/03/07 - Problem - Joubeh does not report correct BUFR messages yet (CCCC = CWAO).
- 2016/03/04 - Problem - It seems that many observations are missing in BUFR messages produced by CLS America (TM315009 - IOBX06 KARS). A significant number of buoys processed by this centre have their data sent in FM18 BUOY format only.
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