2021-07-26 Meeting notes

Date

Jul 26, 2021, 09:00-10:00 UTC

Participants

Campbell

WMO Secretariat

  • Enrico Fucile

  • Timo Proescholdt

  • Xiaoxia Chen

Goals

Update on the progress of the BUFR production for Malawi

Discuss how to monitor the online/offline station.

Discussion topics

Item

Presenter

Notes

Item

Presenter

Notes

project update

Mauritz

Mauritz presents the table (hourly/daily, field name/description)

Update some stations are producing BUFR data

Timo to check whether the bucket is working

Most of the stations are offline

3 out of 4 are offline (online or offline; Battery: Vol)

Discussion

All

  • Workflow

Enrico: 1) Requiremen is to take from ASCII file to BUFR

2) is it possible for the Logger net to get the ASCII files?

– Mauritz: for viewing , not editing.

  • CSV files

Mauritz to send out the excel file to view together with the CSV file

  • BUFR production

it is producing

Online/offline stations

  • Training:

Campbell and Secretariat to assist Malawi colleagues to maintenant the stations

Manufacturer is supposed to do training for stations.

It is suggested to schedule the regular online training session on station maintenance (transmission, battery and other relevant to station operations)

 

Action items

Mauritz to provide the diagram of how the software works (including the logger net on the cloud)
Mauritz to send out the .csv and .xsl files to Secretariat for view
Xiaoxia to set up telecons with Mauritz to better understand how it works (how to get the data and monitor the online/offline stations)

Decisions