GRIB2 - PRODUCT DEFINITION TEMPLATE 4.94

Post-processing individual ensemble forecast, control and perturbed, at a horizontal level
or in a horizontal layer at a specified local time

Created 08/23/2023


Octet No. Contents
10
Parameter category (see Code table 4.1)
11
Parameter number (see Code table 4.2)
12-13
Input process identifier (see Note 1)
14-15
Input originating center (see Note 2 and Common Code table C-11)
16
Type of post-processing (see Note 3)
17
Type of generating process (see Code table 4.3)
18
Background generating process identifier (defined by originating center)
19
Analysis or forecast generating process identifier (defined by originating center)
20
Type of first fixed surfaced (see Code table 4.5)
21
Scale factor of first fixed surface
22-25
Scaled value of first fixed surface
26
Type of second fixed surfaced (see Code table 4.5)
27
Scale factor of second fixed surface
28-31
Scaled value of second fixed surface
32
Type of ensemble forecast
33
Perturbation number
34
Number of forecasts in emsemble
35
Method used to derive the data field values at the local time specified in section 1 (see Code Table 4.248)
36
n - number of analysis or forecasts used to create the composite data field at the local time specified in section 1 (n >= 1)

Octets 37-54 Specification of the analysis or forecast used in the processing (n=1)
37-38
Year of the forecast used in the processing
39
Month of the forecast used in the processing
40
Day of the forecast used in the processing
41
Hour of the forecast used in the processing
42
Minute of the forecast used in the processing
43
Second of the forecast used in the processing
44
Indicator of units of forecast time (see Note 5 and Code Table 4.4)
45-48
Forecast Time (see Notes 4 and 5)
49
Number of time increments of the forecast used in the processing
50
Indicator of units of time for the time increments (see Code Table 4.4)
51-54
Time increments between successive forecast times

Octets 55-nn are included only if n > 1 where nn = 36 + 18 x n
55-nn
(n-1) repetitions of sequence of octets 37-54 describing the next analyses or forecasts used in the processing


Notes:

(1) The input process identifier shall have the value of the ""analysis or forecast process identifier"" of the original GRIB message used as input of the post-processing.

(2) The input originating center shall have the value of the ""originating center"" of the original GRIB message used as input of the post-processing.

(3) This identifies which post-processing technique was used. This is defined by the originating center.

(4) The reference time in octets 37-43 and the forecast time together define the beginning of the overall time interval.

(5) Set code to missing if analysis.



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