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Technical Implementation Notice 12-26, Corrected
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
303 PM EDT Mon Oct 1 2012
TO: Subscribers:
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Other NWS Partners and Employees
FROM: Kevin Schrab
Chief, Observing Services Division
Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services
SUBJECT: Corrected: 2012 Dates for Termination of Automated
Radiotheodolite Tracking (ART) and Radio Direction
Finding Radiosondes (RDF) with Installation of
Radiosonde Replacement Systems (RRS)
Corrected to include the code 045208 established for the
new radiosonde in service at these three sites.
Three Upper Air (UA) sites are scheduled to begin RRS service
in the next 4 months in 2012.
STATION NAME WMO # STN ID RRS START ON/ABOUT
------------ ----- ------ ------------------
CARIBOU 72712 KCAR 15 June 2012
GUAM 91212 PGUM 26 July 2012
BARROW 70026 PABR 30 Aug 2012
The NWS UA observations will gather meteorological data from Global
Positioning System (GPS) radiosondes of a new type: the Vaisala
RS92-NGP. The assigned equipment code is 045208. The leading 04
indicates a correction is applied for solar and infrared exposure.
The 08 suffix indicates automatic satellite navigation. This code
appears immediately after the heading 31313 in the TTAA, TTBB, TTCC,
and TTDD messages.
The NWS describes the RRS release point location with the National
Geodetic Survey (NGS) OPUS solution. This is a datum combination
that relies on North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) for latitude
and longitude, whereas the release point elevation is based on North
American Vertical Datum 1988 (NAVD88) with the GEOID03 model.
By contrast the GPS radiosonde flight information of latitude and
longitude and altitude will rely on the world geodetic system of 1984
(WGS84) standard.
Parts of the UA coded messages will be significantly longer with RRS
conversion. NWS has coordinated with its partners on the longer
length of these messages.
The format of the messages will be the same WMO format for coded
UA messages used with the MicroArt legacy system. The number of
levels in the coded messages will be two to three times greater for
the TTBB and TTDD. As a result, two categories of AWIPS text products
will increase in size: SGL and ABV. The number of levels in the TTAA,
TTCC, PPBB and PPDD parts will be relatively unchanged. These changes
TTCC: 10 Levels
TTBB: 135 Levels
TTDD: 40 Levels
PPBB: 40 Levels
PPDD: 40 Levels
In addition, the 31313 message indicator associated with various
parts of the message will be included with each part of the
thermodynamic message parts.
For additional information on the message requirements, please see
the WMO 306 Manual on Codes (International Codes): Volume I.1
Part A - Alphanumeric Codes, and Volume II, Regional Codes and
National Coding Practices. Users can find information on the levels
selection criteria used in NWS coding software online at:
http://www.ua.nws.noaa.gov
If you have questions or feedback, please contact:
Joseph Facundo
Observing Systems Branch (OPS22)
National Weather Service
1325 East West Highway
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
301-713-2093 Ext. 101
Joseph.Facundo@noaa.gov
National Technical Implementation notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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