7th DBNet Coordination Group Meeting (19-21 March 2024)
Melbourne, Australia
7th DBNet Coordination Group Meeting (DBNet-CG-7)
Date: 19-21 March 2024
Venue: the Bureau of Meteorology's Melbourne office
Address: Bureau of Meteorology,
700 Collins St,
Melbourne,
VIC, 3008,
Australia
| TUESDAY 19 March 2024 | |
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| 09:00 | 1. OPENING OF THE SESSION |
| 09:00 | 1.1. Welcome from the Host Organization (Dr Robert Argent, General Manager of Research to Operations, Bureau of Meteorology) |
| 09:15 | 1.2. Welcome from DBNet-CG Chair (Liam Gumley, CIMSS, SSEC, UW Madison) |
| 09:20 | 1.3. Introduction of participants |
| 09:35 | 1.4. Approval of the agenda |
| 09:45 | 2. STATUS OF DBNET REGIONAL NETWORK COMPONENTS AND SERVICES |
| 09:45 | 2.1. Asia-Pacific |
| 09:45 | 2.1.1. Météo-France (Gilles Montesquieu - remotely) |
| 10:00 | 2.1.2. India |
| 10:00 | 2.1.2.1. IMD (Ashim Kumar Mitra) |
| 10:10 | 2.1.2.2. NCMRWF (Srinivas Desamsetti) |
| 10:15 | 2.1.3. KMA (Dae-gyeom Jeon / Junho Kim) |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 | 2.1.4. CMA (Yang Lei) |
| 11:15 | 2.1.5. JMA (Toshiyuki Kitajima) |
| 11:30 | 2.1.6. BoM (Robert Pipunic) A6.3. BoM: to consider the possibility to process and distribute IASI data (from Metop-B, -C) received at the Casey station (Antarctica) via DBNet, which was interrupted some time ago |
| 11:45 | 2.1.7. NIWA (Simon Wood) A6.6. NWPSAF, JMA and NIWA: to analyse the discrepancies in the timeliness monitoring for the Maupuia station (New Zealand) |
| 12:00 | 2.2. Canada (ECCC) (Matt Arkett – remotely) |
| 12:15 | Lunch break |
| 13:45 | 2.3. EUMETSAT (EARS) |
| 13:45 | 2.3.1. EARS, incl partner stations (EUMETSAT, Nick Coyne) |
| 14:05 | 2.3.2. Stations of opportunity (EUMETSAT, Nick Coyne) |
| 14:25 | 2.4. South America |
| 14:25 | 2.4.1. Argentina (Paula Hobouchian) |
| 14:40 | 2.4.2. Brazil (INPE, Renato Galante Negri) |
| 14:55 | 2.5. NOAA, incl partner stations: CIMSS (Liam Gumley) |
| 15:15 | 2.6 SAWIDRA – Africa (ACMAD, Ali Ahmed Abani) |
| 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 | 3. UPDATES FROM NWP SAF |
| 16:00 | Monitoring by NWP SAF: MetOffice (Elisabeth Nolland, Nigel Atkinson - remotely) A6.24. NWPSAF: to contact those who are receiving the DBNet daily summary notifications to confirm if they are OK with switching from the email notifications to the information posted on the NWPSAF webpage and the best forms of this information |
| 18:00 | End of Day 1 |
| WEDNESDAY 20 March 2024 | |
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| 09:00 | 4 DBNet IMPLEMENTATION |
| 09:00 | 4.1 Direct Broadcast |
| 09:00 | 4.1.1 Review of satellite priorities at stations (WMO, Mikael Rattenborg) |
| 09:20 | 4.2 Processing software, status of L0/L1 packages |
| 09:20 | 4.2.1 CSPP (CIMSS, Liam Gumley) |
| 09:40 | 4.2.2 AAPP, including support for Metop-SG (NWP SAF, Elisabeth Nolland, Nigel Atkinson - remotely) |
| 10:10 | 4.2.3 FY3L0pp and FY3L1pp, incl. support for FY-3E/F/G (CMA, Yang Lei) |
| 10:25 | 4.2.4 MWRI & HIRAS (Yang Lei, CMA) A.3.3. Define descriptors for MWRI and HIRAS |
| 10:40 | Coffee break |
| 11:10 | 4.3 Processing system |
| 11:10 | 4.3.1 Feasibility of FY-3 cloud-based processing (CMA, Yang Lei) A6.17. CMA: to test (with possible support of EUM, CIMSS, BoM) the use of the public DB cloud platform for the CMA-DB station and report back to DBNet-CG |
| 11:30 | 4.3.2 Discussion of processing software/system issues |
| 12:00 | 4.4 Planning (DB services on planned satellite systems) |
| 12:00 | 4.4.1 NOAA-21 |
| 12:00 | 4.4.1.1 NOAA-21 (NOAA/NESDIS, Lihang Zhou) |
| 12:20 | 4.4.1.2 NOAA/NESDIS progress on implementing VIIRS cluster statistics within CrIS field-of-view (NOAA/NESDIS, Lihang Zhou) |
| 12:40 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 | 4.4.2 Metop-SG & AWS PFM/EPS-Sterna |
| 14:00 | 4.4.2.1 Metop-SG (EUMETSAT, Nick Coyne) |
| 14:30 | 4.4.2.2 AWS PFM/EPS-Sterna (EUMETSAT, Nick Coyne) A6.4. EUM: to clarify the downlink characteristics for Sterna (AWS), including the ESA prototype satellite |
| 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 | 4. DBNet IMPLEMENTATION (cont’d) |
| 15:30 | 4.5 Dissemination |
| 15:30 | 4.5.1 Update on WIS 2.0 implementation (Simon Elliot, EUMETSAT) |
| 16:00 | 4.5.2 Progress on migrating GTS data exchange to WIS 2.0 (Peiwen Jin, CMA/NMIC - remotely) |
| 16:30 | 4.5.3 Transition from GTS to WIS 2.0 for DBNet (Simon Elliot, EUMETSAT) A.6.26. To develop a draft transition plan from GTS to WIS 2.0 for DBNet |
| 17:00 | End of Day 2 |
| THURSDAY 21 March 2024 | |
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| 09:00 | 4. Transition from GTS to WIS 2.0 (cont’d) |
| 09:00 | Transition from GTS to WIS 2.0 for DBNet: wrap up |
| 09:15 | 5. NWP REQUIREMENTS FOR DBNET PRODUCTS |
| 09:15 | 5.1 Feedback from the NWP user community (ITWG Co-Chair, BoM, Fiona Smith) |
| 10:00 | 5.2 Other potential services: DBNet station operator survey results and follow-up discussion |
| 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 | 5.3 Summary of GODEX-NWP-6 (WMO, Mikael Rattenborg) (verbal) |
| 11:45 | 5.4 Preliminary results of impact studies carried out by SMN (Paula Hobouchian) A6.20. SMN: to consider making impact studies on the usage of DBNet products in the regional NWP systems to feed into the DBNet article (A.3.7) as well as share this information with DBNet-CG |
| 12:00 | 6. DBNet DOCUMENTS REVISION |
| 12:00 | 6.1 DBNet Guide (WMO, Zoya Andreeva) A6.19. WMO: to update the DBNet Guide limiting it to a more static content, and transfer the more dynamic information of the Guide to the WMO community web page |
| 12:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:00 | 6.2 Status of DBNet Article Draft (WMO, Mikael Rattenborg) (verbal) A3.7. Prepare first version of DBNet article for publication in a journal (tbd) and in the WMO Bulletin |
| 14:30 | 7. COORDINATION |
| 14:30 | 7.1 DBNet Coordination Group membership (DBNet-Coord) Operational points of contacts (DBNet-OPS) (WMO, Zoya Andreeva) (verbal) |
| 14:40 | 7.2 Coordination with other relevant groups (ITWG, IROWG, CGMS, NOAA HRD user group) (verbal) |
| 14:50 | 8. CONCLUSION |
| 14:50 | 8.1 DBNet priorities |
| 15:10 | 8.2 Action review |
| 16:00 | 8.3 Next meetings (intersessionals, DBNet-CG-8) |
| 16:00 | End of Day 3 and Adjourn |