WMO Codes
Background Information on Migration to TDCF

 

   

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keywords Subject issued/updated
Introduction Introduction to Table Driven Codes: BUFR and CREX
   English      French  
June 2000
Migration plan  Summary of Plan for the Migration to Table-driven Code Forms
   English   French   Spanish   Russian   Chinese   Arabic
Nov 2002
Plan for the Migration to Table-driven Code Forms   [PDF] Nov 2002
Status of migration Analysis of the replies to the questionnaire on Migration to TDCF distributed at the end of year 2007 August 2008
BUFR and CREX bulletins Every week
Information on the migration for RBSN stations September 2009
WMO letter OBS/DRM/MTDCF (PR-6461)dated 17 november 2009 (pdf) Annex 1 (MSWord), Annex 2 (MSWord)
Compilation of the replies:
Status of the national plans for the migration to TDCF as at January 2010
17 November 2009
January 2010
CBS-Ext.(06) Statement on Migration to TDCF by CBS-Ext.(06), November 2006 Nov 2006
     
Self training How to explain Table Driven Code Forms:  Presentations in English et en Français  Jan 2008
Encoding/decoding -
Software packages
The slide No.  35 of the PowerPoint presentation on "Why and how the Migration to TDCF? " includes information on software packages available for encoding/decoding -  Updates to this information should be sent to the WMO Secretariat as required. Dec 2009
How to code Traditional WMO Observations in BUFR or CREX.
BUFR/CREX templates with regulations for reporting, encoding  and decoding  
from the Manual on Codes, Part C (useful for programmers, approved by CBS Ext. 06)

For other data types: Examples of other BURF/CREX templates
Nov 2009
BUFR/CREX data verification service ECMWF Web verification service  
     

 

WWW-Web Editor, Sept 2007