PeterS, Jin, Susan and Tan discussed progress on this today, and follow up discussions with Lawrie

Priorities

1. Single run of UK system
   • as close as possible to UK settings, Met Office output.
   • will need local BUFR tables etc. and other local tailoring
2. Local run
   • as for step1 but with BoM output and other modifications as required
3. Cycling
4. Archiving
   • no point archiving until after cycling
   • Tan has suggested directory structure for OpENDAP at NCI
     • netCDF files under OpENDAP
     • start-dump,LBCs, BUFR files archived separately
     • can modify MARS to access these
     • ISS Build Team generalized data access layers should also make use of this
5. Diagnostics
   • rely on archive

CreateODB

Satellites

  - Tan provided fix to Xiao so that CreateODB correctly handles BUFR Section2
     - Passed on to David Davies, in the trunk
     - Originally BUFR decoder did not read the header, but delved straight in
     - Also included fix to alloe for CrIS data to be read

Insitu Obs

   - UK BUFR tables are out of date and inconsistent with ECMWF
   - We should use ECMWF BUFR_TABLE_B
      - this can b managed by an environment variable
      - fix for this is not in the trunk, as still needs testing
      - Will need to use our own Element Files

To Do

  - AMVs still a couple of days away (Tan)
      - probably a problem with the Quality Indicators.
  - High rejection rate from sondes (Tan, maybe Tomasz?)
  - MTSATclr to be checked (Jin)
  - WindSAT to be checked (whoever of Tan, Jin, Susan is available first)
  - Check Adam Maycock's ticket61 for his progress on this.
  - Will need something to automatically check for changes in UK Element Files, so that we can update our Element Files if needed
     - **THIS NEEDS TO BE DONE AS PART OF STEP 1 (Single run of UK version)**

MOGREPS

• Susan helping David extract necessary data from MASS

VAR

• Susan has it crashing. Looks like a build problem (compiler and/or MPI libraries)

UM

• Susan has the IO-Server crashing - also looks like MPI library or build problem

Output data

• There are fields the UK put out that we do not use : not a problem
• There are fields we put out (variable and/or frequency) that the Met Office do not write or do not check - these are a problem
• So will always need our own STASH and output settings
• Modifying our output files means checking all downstream systems
• So need scripts to automatically check for UK changes to STASH or output file settings, and modify ours as necessary
  • THIS NEEDS TO BE DONE AS PART OF STEP 2 (Single run of Local version)