id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
699	Errors in RO BUFR descriptors	Ian Culverwell	Ian Culverwell	" Two inconsistencies in the ROM SAF RO BUFR document (current version, vn 2.5, June 2019 is attached) have been discovered by Jeff Ator at NOAA and Doug Hunt of UCAR:

  1. The Master Version Table Number in Table 3 (octet 14 of BUFR Section 1) is incorrectly set to 12. It should be set to 35, since new satellite IDs (under descriptor 0-01-007 in Table B) and new satellite instruments (under descriptor 0-02-019 in Table B) have been added for Spire and GeoOptics data, but these did not become fully valid at the WMO level until version 35 of BUFR Table B. 

  2. Bits 8-10 of the RO quality flag in Table 9 (descriptor 0 33 039) have been given the same meanings that the equivalent variable, PCD, has been given in ROPP. But these meanings have not yet been endorsed by WMO.  https://github.com/wmo-im/BUFR4/blob/master/BUFRCREX_CodeFlag_en_33.csv shows that they are currently 'reserved', i.e. undefined.

See https://trac.romsaf.org/wiki/ticket/332 for further details.

The ROM SAF BUFR document has been updated at r6588.

These changes, permanent in the first case and (we hope) temporary in the second, will affect '''ropp2bufr''' and '''bufr2ropp''' and their {{{ecodes}}} cousins.  These should be fixed urgently."	task	closed	major	11.0	ropp_io	10.0	fixed	BUFR