[bufrtables] Error in WMO standard table element 3-02-044

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Subject: [bufrtables] Error in WMO standard table element 3-02-044
From: John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:13:40 -0600

Theres a typo in WMO Master Table version 13 
(http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/WMOCodes/Operational/BUFR/BufrTabB-11-2007.pdf)

3 02 044 (Evaporation data)0 04 024 Time period in hours

  0 02 004 Type of instrument for evaporation or crop type for 
evapotranspiration

0 13 003 Relative humidityshould be:

  0 04 024 Time period in hours
  0 02 004 Type of instrument for evaporation or crop type for 
evapotranspiration
  0 13 033 Evaporation /evapotranspiration

this has been reported to WMO (Pierre Kerhervé) with the help of Gil Ross and 
Stanley Kellett.