Sri Lanka TAC2BUFR discussion

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Last updated: Oct 07, 2022
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 Date

Oct 7, 2022 09:00-09:30UTC

Format

Online meeting (Microsoft Teams)

 Participants

Sri Lanka NMHS

  • Meril Mendis, Deputy Director, National Meteorological Center, Department of Meteorology

  • Kelum, NFP on WIS matters

  • Athula Priyantha

  • A.R.P.  Warnasooriya

  • Malith Fernando

WMO Secretariat

  • Hassan Haddouch

  • Xiaoxia Chen

 Goals

  • to discussion the technical guidance on TAC to BUFR migration in Sri Lanka

Provisional Agenda

  1. Opening

  2. Update from Sri Lanka

  3. Discussion

 Discussion topics

Item

Presenter

Notes

Item

Presenter

Notes

1

Round table self introduction

2

Kelum

Made a brief introduction of Sri Lanka current situation (observation stations and data transmission diagram)

3

Discussion

Hassan introduced the wis2box with a component of CSV2BUFR. The V1.0 of wis2box will be released this December. Support from Secretariat is possible. Any questions related to WIS activities can be reached at wis@wmo.int

Secretariat can help coordinate between GISC New Delhi and IBL company as needed.

Sri Lanka colleagues agree to try the proposals first.

 Action items

Three proposals, 1) to contact Principal GISC for TAC2BUFR conversion support or to send TAC to GISC New Delhi; 2) to try wis2box installation; 3) to contact IBL software company

 Decisions