2021-11-30 Meeting notes

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Last updated: Nov 30, 2021
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Date

Nov 30, 2021 15:00 - 16:00 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

Discussion topics

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Item

Presenter

Notes

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Item

Presenter

Notes

1

Update

Rodrick

  • Antennas installation update

Stations requiring antennas installation

3 out 10 stations are not necessarily installed anymore.

2

Discussion

all

  • 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

Decisions