Hi Milan:
I see, so you think that the only changes of the master tables are from version 0, so if we never see any messsages that use version 0, we should be ok to use just version 13.
Ive been assuming that local tables are only allowed to use descriptors in the
allowed range of x=48-63 and y=192-255. All other descriptors must come from
the master table. Thus, if we dont see descriptors in the local ranges, we know
we dont need a local table. Do you assume the same?
thanks,
John
Milan Dragosavac wrote:
Hi John,
As I mentioned before, the differences appear at the beginning of bufr
usage. Version 0 was experimental and probably all this is relevant only
for Ecmwf data. At the time no one was creating bufr data except us.
So in practice I would not be too much concerned about that. I would use
version 13 and make all necessary links. What happens in practice is
that data producers set in the section 1 in many cases wrong information
about local tables used and so on. Ecmwf software creates table names
out of information from section 1 to avoid any possible clashes.
The new links are needed only if software can not find table in the
BUFR_TABLES directory. The reason is usually false usage of local tables
and than table name contains origination centre, sub-centre master
version and local version. The tables to be loaded are printed if they
are missing and you can make links for those tables.
Best regards
Milan
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