16.May.2023.satellite.issues

Task Team on Table Driven Code Forms (TT-TDCF)

Ad hoc meeting for satellite issues

Teleconference

Agenda

1. Opening and approval of agenda
2. Best practices for who has the authority of BUFR proposals by ECMWF, but for data produced in other organizations (25')
3. Proposal for new BUFR table entries for EPS-SG (EUMETSAT) : IASI-NG Level 2 and VII Level 2 #161 (45', Antoine)
4. next steps for the following issues (20')
   • BUFR Table D 10, New BUFR template for satellite reflectance #158
   • BUFR Table D, New BUFR template for lighting observations from satellite #159
   • Table D 10, BUFR template for DMSP satellites #156
5. AOB

Notes

• the team reviewed the current status of https://github.com/wmo-im/BUFR4/issues/161. See notes in comments.
• The team discussed who has authority to propose amendments. (Marijana)... (Simon) anyone can make proposals on behalf of anyone, but it would be a sensible working practice to consult with the source agency before making a proposal to this group; (Marijana) communicated with colleagues to learn more about the background and explained that there is an agreement b/t EUMETSAT and ECMWF for providing data in NetCDF; before was able to use [AMSU-A?] but cannot do this now and therefore need to convert DMSP satellite data to BUFR format. Further notes are captured in this issue: https://github.com/wmo-im/BUFR4/issues/158.

List of participants

Name	Agency	16 May
Jeffrey ATOR	NOAA
Marijana CREPULJA	ECMWF	X
Simon Stuart ELLIOTT	EUMETSAT	X
Sergio Henrique Soares FERREIRA	National Institute for Space Research, Brazil	X
Sibylle KREBBER	DWD	X
Antoine MERLE	EUMETSAT	X
Anna MILAN	WMO Secretariat	X
Christina KOPKEN-WATTS (guest)	DWD	X
Tony MCNALLY (guest)	EUMETSTAT	X