GRIB2 - PRODUCT DEFINITION TEMPLATE 4.31

Satellite Product

Revised 04/07/2010
Red text depicts changes made since 06/18/2008



Octet No. Contents
10
Parameter category (see Code Table 4.1)
11
Parameter number (see Code Table 4.2)
12
Type of generating process (see Code Table 4.3)
13
Observation generating process identifier (defined by originating centres)
14
Number of contributing spectral bands (NB)


15 - Repeat the following 11 octets for each contributing band (nb = 1,NB)

(15+11(nb-1)) - (16+11(nb-1)) Satellite series of band nb (code table defined by originating/generating centre)
(17+11(nb-1)) - (18+11(nb-1)) Satellite series of band nb (code table defined by originating/generating centre)
(19+11(nb-1)) - (20+11(nb-1)) Instrument types of band nb (code table defined by originating/generating centre)
(21 +11(nb-1)) Scale factor of central wave number of band nb
(22+11(nb-1)) - (25+11(nb-1)) Scaled value of central wave number of band nb (units: m-1)

Notes:

1. For "satellite series of band nb", "satellite numbers of band nb" and "instrument types of band nb", it is recommended to encode the values as per BUFR Code ables 0 02 020, 0 01 007 (Common Code Table C-5) and 0 02 019 (Common Code Table C-8), respectively.


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