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Various converters for getting obs data in and out of IODA
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add tomorrow io WMO BUFR satellite id #1503

Closed BenjaminRuston closed 5 months ago

BenjaminRuston commented 5 months ago

Description

Update the satellite ID for the tomorrow io microwave sounder satellite

Issue(s) addressed

Resolves #1502

Impact

IODA files for tomorrow io microwave sounder with the WMO BUFR satellite ID

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BenjaminRuston commented 5 months ago

I see Table C-5 - new entry #⁠769 as "tomorrow.io 6U CubeSat" but are these changes needed to in this PR? or does that happen somewhere else?

Correct all we care about is the satellite ID, so the satellite bus which carries the sensor. And what's more confusing is they have a single WMO identifier but will have multiple sensors so we will need to add something as these come online to differentiate them. The IODA key is satelliteSubIdentifier and we use this currently for GNSS-RO.

the WMO sensor ID is the 536 and 537... I'm actually not certain what the 182 is as I'm not a BUFR expert by any means, my educated guess would be processing center