From:	Offiler, Dave
Sent:	26 January 2015 15:13
To:	Burrows, Chris; Culverwell, Ian; 'Sean.Healy@ecmwf.int'
Subject:	FW: Fwd: BUFR sat id code for COSMIC-2

Chris/Ian/Sean

FYI.

Ian  well need to consider the equivalent 4-chr codes we employ in ROPP netCDF (like the current 
C001...C006).
We could have simply C007...C018 or more descriptively something like C2E1..C2E6, C2P1...C2P6. In any 
case, we need
to follow whatever coding UCAR use in their own netCDF product files. No urgency, juts one more 
thing for ROPP-9
(should I create a Ticket as a reminder?).

FWIW, bufr-20.0.4 now includes these new Code Table entries in advance of MetDB updating their 
operational tables
In the next-version library package (which probably wont come out until 2016)

Dave


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From: Jeff Ator - NOAA Federal [mailto:jeff.ator@noaa.gov]  
Sent: 26 January 2015 14:40 
To: dhunt@ucar.edu 
Cc: Offiler, Dave; ector@ucar.edu; schrein@ucar.edu; William Kuo; Lidia Cucurull - NOAA Affiliate; Bradley 
Mabe - NOAA Federal; Shucai Guan - NOAA Federal 
Subject: Re: Fwd: BUFR sat id code for COSMIC-2

Hi Everyone, 
 
Just to close the loop on this, the following is what was approved by the codes team during the 
December review period: 
 
750  COSMIC-2 E1 
751  COSMIC-2 E2 
752  COSMIC-2 E3 
753  COSMIC-2 E4 
754  COSMIC-2 E5 
755  COSMIC-2 E6 
 
724  COSMIC-2 P1 
725  COSMIC-2 P2 
726  COSMIC-2 P3 
727  COSMIC-2 P4 
728  COSMIC-2 P5 
729  COSMIC-2 P6
As you can surmise, "E" means equatorial and "P" means polar.  These new entries will get 
published in Common Code Table C-5 in the next table update in early May.
-Jeff

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Doug Hunt <dhunt@ucar.edu> wrote:
Thanks, Jeff! 
 
Regards, 
 
  Doug Hunt 
 
dhunt@ucar.edu 
Software Engineer 
UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611
On Thu, 13 Nov 2014, Jeff Ator - NOAA Federal wrote:
Hi Everyone, 
 
FYI, I haven't forgotten about this ;-)  Since this is idea is somewhat outside-of-the-box, I 
forwarded it to the CGMS Task 
Force on Satellite Data back in June to get their take on it before submitting a formal request to 
the full WMO codes group.  
However, I never heard back from the CGMS team despite a couple of follow-up reminders, so 
I'm going to just go ahead and 
submit it now to the full WMO group since we're now beginning a month-long period of 
reviewing potential fast-track updates to 
the manual. 
 
If approved, the new entries would become effective in May 2015.  I'll keep you posted. 
 
-Jeff 
 
 
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Doug Hunt <dhunt@ucar.edu> wrote: 
      Hi Jeff:  Easy confusion to have!  COSMIC-1 (the constellation) has 6 spacecraft, the second 
of which is called 
      'COSMIC-2'.  COSMIC-2 (the constellation) consists of two launches, the first set of 6 
spacecraft to equatorial 
      orbits and the second set of 6 spacecraft to polar orbits. 
 
      What we need are 12 new BUFR codes for the two 'COSMIC-2' constellations. 
 
      So we need something like this in table C-5: 
 
      # First equatorial launch 
      COSMIC-2a-1 : 750 
      COSMIC-2a-2 : 751 
      COSMIC-2a-3 : 752 
      COSMIC-2a-4 : 753 
      COSMIC-2a-5 : 754 
      COSMIC-2a-6 : 755 
 
      # Second polar launch 
      COSMIC-2b-1 : 760 
      COSMIC-2b-2 : 761 
      COSMIC-2b-3 : 762 
      COSMIC-2b-4 : 763 
      COSMIC-2b-5 : 764 
      COSMIC-2b-6 : 765 
 
      If someone has a less awful way to name these satellites, please let me know! 
 
      Regards, 
 
        Doug 
 
      dhunt@ucar.edu 
      Software Engineer 
      UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611 
 
      On Mon, 23 Jun 2014, Jeff Ator - NOAA Federal wrote: 
 
            Hi Doug, 
 
            Sorry, but I'm confused about what exactly you need here.  You say that there don't seem 
to be any BUFR 
            codes assigned for the 
            COSMIC-2 satellite, but your own graphic shows that there's already an ID #741 for 
COSMIC-2.  Could you 
            please explain in a 
            little more detail exactly what entry(s) you need and in which tables, if something other 
than Common 
            Code Table C-5? 
 
            Thanks, 
            -Jeff 
 
            ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 
            From: Doug Hunt <dhunt@ucar.edu> 
            Date: Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:09 AM 
            Subject: Re: BUFR sat id code for COSMIC-2 
            To: "Offiler, Dave" <dave.offiler@metoffice.gov.uk>, Jeff Ator - NOAA Federal 
<jeff.ator@noaa.gov> 
            Cc: Dave Ector <ector@ucar.edu>, Bill Schreiner <schrein@ucar.edu>, Bill Kuo 
<kuo@ucar.edu>, Lidia 
            Cucurull 
            <lidia.cucurull@noaa.gov> 
 
 
            Hi Dave, Jeff:  Lidia Cucurull of NOAA just brought up the good point that there do not 
seem to be any 
            BUFR codes assigned for 
            the COSMIC-2 satellites. 
 
            In the latest version of the Radio Occultation BUFR format that I'm aware of: 
 
            WMO FM94 (BUFR) Specification 
            For Radio Occultation Data 
            Version 2.1 
            19 May 2011 
 
            Table 6 (image attached) shows those IDs currently assigned. 
 
            Do either of you know of any plans to add IDs for COSMIC-2?  There will be 6 IDs 
needed for the first 
            equatorial launch of C-2 
            in 2016 and (hopefully) 6 more needed for the follow-on polar launch. 
 
            Regards, 
 
              Doug Hunt 
 
            dhunt@ucar.edu 
            Software Engineer 
            UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611 
 
            On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Lidia Cucurull wrote: 
 
                  Hi Doug, 
                  Has the satellite id code for the BUFR files been identified for C-2? Has the request 
to WMO been 
            formalized/done? 
                  If not, we 
                  need to request these numbers ASAP through the US representative. (I think you 
have his contact 
            information, 
                  right?). Please, 
                  cc me on the email. 
 
                  Thanks! 
                  Lidia 
 
                  -- 
                  Lidia Cucurull, PhD, CIRES 
                  NOAA GNSS RO Chief Scientist 
                  Global Systems Division, Office of the Director 
                  NOAA?s Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) 
                  325 Broadway, R/GSD, Boulder, CO 80305 
                  303-497-6496 (Office), 720-771-0830 (Cell) 
 
 
 


