29 March 2017 - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking public comment on the candidate standard GRIB2 Coverage, an Encoding Profile of the OGC Coverage Implementation Schema.
The candidate standard specifies the usage of the GRIB2 data format for the encoding of OGC coverages. The GRIB2 specification is maintained by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and is the standard encoding for the exchange and storage of general, regularly distributed information expressed in binary form. GRIB2 is primarily used to represent the outputs of numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, but is in no way restricted to this domain.
GRIB2 is the output format mandated by WMO for the exchange of numerical weather prediction model data, and is used in various WMO systems for international data exchange. Extending the OGC Web Coverage Service standard to allow the client to consume coverages encoded in GRIB2 enables the exposure of several interfaces that are currently used within WMO to users interested in pulling and working with NWP data directly. This is an important step in increasing the interoperability of the computing resources within the NWP community and exposing data to further additional communities.
The GRIB2 Coverage Encoding Profile is based on the authoritative format specification available in the WMO Manual on Codes.
The candidate GML Application Schema – Coverages, GRIB2 Coverage Encoding Profile is available for review and comment at https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/68769. Comments are due by 29th April 2017 and should be sent to Email Contact.
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