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Re: Are we WMO members? (fwd)



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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
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Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:00:03 -0600
From: Linda Miller <address@hidden>
To: John Caron <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Are we WMO members?

Hi Everybody,
Mohan is right in stating that only countries are members of WMO, however each country has U.S. representatives to the WMO. Fred Branksi is one of the Permanent Representative (PR) to the WMO on data issues such as this. Fred has been at NWS for years, so he is pretty knowledgeable on such things as BUFR file format. If you want me to follow up on this, I will, or you can contact Fred (who might be on travel) at: 

Fred Branski
address@hidden
301-713-0864X121

Linda


John Caron wrote:

im looking for a formal specification of the BUFR file format.

according to NCEP (http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/sib/decoders/BUFRLIB/)
"the WMO Manual #306, Volume I.2, Part B itself, which .. is nonetheless the "official" documentation of the BUFR code form" 

from this page:

  http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/WMOCodes/ManualCodesGuides.html
the link "Volume I.2 - Global Aspects" (http://www.wmo.int/pages/wmoftpaxspublications_en.html) is password protected. 

thanks


Don Murray wrote:

John-

What document are you looking for in particular?  It might be
available another way.

Don

Ben Domenico wrote:

Hi John,

Gil Ross of the British Met Office is very interested in our work with
netCDF, CF, CDM, and WCS binary encoding.  He's very active in the WMO data
systems standards (so of course he's also interesed in BUFR and GRIB).  He
was planning to "attend" your seminar on the earlier date and I assume he'll still do so next week unless there's a conflict. He's probably our best bet 
for a contact.  Dave McGuirk would be the other one.  Would you like me to
contact either or both of them?

-- Ben

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Mohan Ramamurthy <address@hidden> wrote:


John Caron wrote:


Is UCAR or Unidata a member of the WMO? If so, do we have a password to
get at the restricted areas of the website, eg:

http://www.wmo.int/pages/wmoftpaxspublications_en.html

???


John,

Only countries are members of the WMO, not institutions or organizations.
I have no idea how to get access to the restricted areas of their website. 
Often, individual committees and commissions of the WMO have their own
restricted areas, controlled by those groups.

Mohan






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