APRIL 2016 .
- 2016/04/06 - Announcement - Meteo-France and CLS agree to postpone the end of the distribution of FM18 BUOY data to the 1st of September. This concerns those sent under headers with CCCC equal to LFPW, LFVW or KARS.
- 2016/04/01 - Problem - In ship BUFR messages, Metoffice increments the so called "update sequence number" for delayed data (those of which the header is fitted with RRA, RRB... This is not correct. Concerned bulletins are ISSA[A-L][01/11/16] EGRR.
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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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- 2016/02/17 - Announcement - Meteo-France officially announces the distribution of new buoy BUFR data in replacement of FM18 ones and the stop of the transmission for these latter on the 3rd of May 2016. This concerns data transmitted from Meteo-France (LFPW) and CLS Argos (LFVW).
- 2016/02/15 - Announcement - An evaluation test on drifting buoy data sent onto the GTS is planned at Meteo-France and MEDS on the 1st of March. The purpose is to identify which buoys have their data sent in BUFR (TM308009) and/or in FM18 dataformat, expecting the problem at Joubeh will have been fixed.
- 2016/02/12 - Problem fixed - Wrong header for Argo float data has been corrected => IOPX02 RKSL.
- 2016/02/05 - Problem - Argo float data are reported onto the GTS with header TTAAii CCCC instead of IOP....
- 2016/02/05 - Problem - Since the 8th of December 2015, Joubeh has been using template TM315009 to report drifting buoy data in BUFR onto the GTS. Headers are IOBX12 and IOBX15 CWAO. Unfortunately, WMO Ids are missing in these messages. Data are so rejected by a majority of users. Joubeh stopped the transmission of BUFR messages using the never validated WMO template for buoy data which were sent under headers IOBX02 and IOBX05 CWAO.
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