Task Team WIGOS Metadata

21 April 2023 13-14:30 UTC

Agenda & Notes (DRAFT)

Opening

• Welcome
  • The discussed SpaceX launch and welcomed new MeteoSwiss collaborator, Sarina
  • adoption of 2023-04-06-TT-WIGOSMD (5')
• Secretariat updates (Anna)
  • FT2023-1 schedule
    • April 28 NFP review complete --> WMO approvals --> release and publication by 31 May 2023 at the latest
  • FT2023-2 schedule (intended)
    • July 1* - Validate and finalize all proposals
      • 2-week window to prepare amendments
    • July 15 - submit amendments for endorsement and review
      • 2-month window for FP review
    • Sept 15 - final FP approval
      • 1.5-month window for final WMO adoption and publication
    • Nov 1 - operational date
  • Internal (WMO) discussions about the fact that fast-track should not be used for changes to codes or WMDR that are major or have an operational impact. When this is the case, we need to introduce these changes through the 'standard procedure'.
  • reminder of updated GitHub workflow presented at the last meeting: https://github.com/wmo-im/wmo-im.github.io/wiki/Repository-Workflow-Guidance

WMDR issues

• NEW
  • Instrument deployments and siting classifications: https://github.com/wmo-im/wmdr/issues/55

Codes Issues

(see notes in issue comments)

• NEW issues

  • Data policy values: https://github.com/wmo-im/wmds/issues/475
  • References to CIMO: https://github.com/wmo-im/wmds/issues/477
  • New GDP programme: https://github.com/wmo-im/wmds/issues/478

• FT2023-2 issues discussed

  • Methods:https://github.com/wmo-im/wmds/issues/336 (Rainer, Jörg)
  • Application areas: https://github.com/wmo-im/wmds/issues/438 (John)
  • Deduplication of notations: https://github.com/wmo-im/wmds/issues/474 (Anna)
  • Tags vs paths problem: https://github.com/wmo-im/wmds/issues/472 (Anna)
  • Radiation (Franziska, John)
    • https://github.com/wmo-im/wmds/issues/389
  • Units: https://github.com/wmo-im/wmds/issues/454 (Gao)
  • Programs: https://github.com/wmo-im/wmds/issues/462 (Anthonin)
  • Wind: https://github.com/wmo-im/wmds/issues/417 (Gao)

• FT2023-2 issues NOT discussed (placeholder)

postponed to next meeting (need more time):

• Recombine tables 1-01*, 5-02* https://github.com/wmo-im/wmds/issues/464 (Jörg)
• Issues in need for further work before discussion in the team:
  • cloud variables: https://github.com/wmo-im/wmds/issues/443 (Franziska)
  • lightning variables: https://github.com/wmo-im/wmds/issues/391 (Jörg, Anna)
  • hydrology methods: https://github.com/wmo-im/wmds/issues/436 (Juan)

Actions

Next meetings

• Thursday, 4 May 2023, 13-14:30 UTC (Gao chair)
• 18 May - cancelled due to holiday, should we schedule another day?
• Thursday 1 June 2023

Attendees

Team Members

Name	Present
Jörg Klausen (Switzerland Chair TT-WIGOSMD)	X
Tom Kralidis (Canada ET-Metadata Chair)
Gao Chen (USA)	X
Lara Ferrighi (Norway)
Rainer Maerz (Germany)
Shuli HAN (China)
Juan Bianchi (Argentina)

WMO Secretariat

Name	Present
Enrico Fucile
Anna Milan	X
David Berry
Rodica Nitu
Lize Anthonin (OceanOPS)
Johanna Korhonen	X
Magali Krieger (OceanOPS)	X
Washington Otieno	X
Champika Gallage

Collaborators

Name	Present
Franziska Stürzl (OSCAR/Surface)	X
Sarina Danioth	X
Jitze van der Meulen (KNMI)
John Eyre (retired from UK MetOffice)	X
Tanja Kleinart, ET-WT
Samantha Linnerts, ET-WT
Thinesh Sornalingam, ET-WT
Markus Fiebig, NILU