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Date

09 15:00 - 1016:00 UTC

Participants

Campbell

  • Mauritz de Beer (absent)

Malawi

  • Rodrick Walusa

  • Amos Mtonya (absent)

WMO Secretariat

  • Data and Information Management Division, Infrastructure Department

    • Enrico Fucile

    • Hassan Haddouch

    • Timo Proescholdt (absent)

    • Xiaoxia Chen

Goals

  • to update the progress on antennas installation

  • to update the stations ready for BUFR data

To be updated:

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Discussion topics

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Presenter

Notes

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Update

Rodrick

  • Antennas installation update

Stations requiring antennas installation

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3 out

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10 stations

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How many stations are ready for BUFR data? (Mauritz), 11-23 update

  • For Amazon server, there are 25 stations configured. However,

    • 10 stations providing BUFR data

    • 17 stations receiving the observation data

  • Any website for monitoring the stations?

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How many stations are in WDQMS? (Secretariat)

  • For ECMWF center in WDQMS, since November 16, there are 8 stations receiving daily data.

Discussion topics

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Item

Presenter

Notes

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3are not necessarily installed anymore.

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Discussion

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  • Malawi data exchange

Rodrick agrees that bufr data of the 44 stations to be transferred, but not the raw data.

Enrico mentioned that the new architecture is to use FTP server, with a component for conversion from csv to bufr.

  • Next step

Enrico mentioned that by appling the new wis2 protocol, currently both ECMWF and DWD will be getting the data, access to more users (not raw data) will be provided later on

  • hourly bufr data

Rodrick agrees on tranferring the hourly bufr data

  • data over the cloud

Rodrick expresses the concern that when Malawi needs to pay for the cloud service

  • how Malawi colleagues use the observational data in Malawi

Rodrick mentions data is now achived, is used in forecast processing.

Action items

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Decisions