“Migration of the category 1 metorological observation data (SYNOP, TEMP, PILOT, CLIMAT) should be completed in November 2010”
(Plan for migration to table driven code forms, Geneva: WMO, 2002)
BUFR Migration Tool is designed to help National Meteorological Services in their process of migration to Table Driven Code Forms (TDCF), and to play a key role for developing National Migration plan.
In accordance with the WMO TDCF Migration Plan, Migration of data 1 to TDCF (BUFR) should be completed by November 2010. After this date, meteorological observations such as SYNOP, TEMP, PILOT, CLIMAT should not be disseminated to GTS network. Instead, observations all over the world should be transmitted in BUFR/CREX.
TDCF Migration is process where National Meteorological Service shall prepare itself for this step.
Is your NMS ready for observations in BUFR by this November?
Indeed Migration is long and difficult process consisting of several steps and at the end it most likely requires to upgrade and/or to change of your current hardware and software. This could be very costly and quite often even not possible due to missing support for legacy software.
BUFR migration tool helps you to resolve severe issues with developing your National Migration Plan, allows you to generate BUFR observations without an immediate upgrade of the observing hardware/software, and at the same time support current TAC-based legacy systems until they are upgraded or replaced.
With BUFR migration tool your way to TDCF could be much smoother and less complicated. BUFR migration tool offers you standalone solution for transparent, fully-automated bi-directional conversion while adding proper metadata. It conforms to WMO standards and templates and they can be updated at any time to keep your system up to date.
As the BUFR migration tool interface is based on SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), it can be easily integrated with your switching system (over network). Incoming observations coded in TAC, such as SYNOP, AWS, PILOT, TEMP, SHIP, CLIMAT or others (not limited to Category 1), will be converted to their BUFR/CREX equivalents according to the latest WMO templates instantly, and will become available along with the old forms. This solution is fully backward compatible and so you can use all of your current hardware/software till it is retired.
In case you consider upgrading also your Automated Message Switching System, we are happy to offer you our Moving Weather which provides you significant advantages! First of all it has BUFR migration tool already integrated with Graphical user interface, so you can control the process directly from message switch. Moreover, since Moving Weather is best and most advanced WMO message switching system available, it is already compatible with WIS capability (WMO Information System). It can be upgraded to WIS system Discover Weather at any time you need it.
We are proud to propose to you easy and understandable guidance on how to migrate to TDCF in a very convenient and simple way, using using the most user-friendly tool available.
