ecCodes

"ecCodes is a package developed by ECMWF which provides an application programming interface and a set of tools for decoding and encoding messages in the following formats:

• WMO FM-92 GRIB edition 1 and edition 2
• WMO FM-94 BUFR edition 3 and edition 4 
• WMO GTS abbreviated header (only decoding).

A useful set of command line tools provide quick access to the messages. C, Fortran 90 and Python interfaces provide access to the main ecCodes functionality.

ecCodes is an evolution of GRIB-API.  It is designed to provide the user with a simple set of functions to access data from several formats with a key/value approach.

For GRIB encoding and decoding, the GRIB-API functionality is provided fully in ecCodes with only minor interface and behaviour changes. Interfaces for C, Fortran 90 and Python are all maintained as in GRIB-API.  However, the GRIB-API Fortran 77 interface is no longer available.

In addition, a new set of functions with the prefix "codes_" is provided to operate on all the supported message formats. These functions have the same interface and behaviour as the "grib_" functions.

A selection of GRIB-API tools has been included in ecCodes (ecCodes GRIB tools), while new tools are available for the BUFR (ecCodes BUFR tools) and GTS formats. The new tools have been developed to be as similar as possible to the existing GRIB-API tools maintaining, where possible, the same options and behaviour. A significant difference compared with GRIB-API tools is that bufr_dump produces output in JSON format suitable for many web based applications."

https://software.ecmwf.int/wiki/display/ECC/ecCodes+Home

http://www.ecmwf.int/en/learning/education-material

https://software.ecmwf.int/wiki/display/OPTR/ecCodes%3A+GRIB+and+BUFR+data+decoding+and+encoding+software+2016

Installation Notes

The binaries installed in /usr/local/bin from version 2.2.0 are:

tigge_accumulations                                                                                                        
tigge_check                                                                                                                
tigge_name                                                                                                                 
tigge_split                                                                                                                
bufr_copy                                                                                                                  
codes_bufr_filter                                                                                                          
gts_filter                                                                                                                 
metar_filter                                                                                                               
metar_ls                                                                                                                   
bufr_ls                                                                                                                    
grib_count                                                                                                                 
grib_ls                                                                                                                    
gts_compare                                                                                                                
gts_copy                                                                                                                   
gts_ls                                                                                                                     
metar_dump                                                                                                                 
bufr_dump                                                                                                                  
bufr_index_build                                                                                                           
bufr_set                                                                                                                   
codes_parser                                                                                                               
grib2ppm                                                                                                                   
gts_get                                                                                                                    
metar_get                                                                                                                  
grib_compare                                                                                                               
grib_dump                                                                                                                  
grib_histogram
metar_compare
bufr_compare
codes_count
codes_info
grib_copy
grib_filter
grib_get_data
grib_set
bufr_count
bufr_get
grib_get
grib_index_build
grib_merge
gts_dump
metar_copy
grib_to_netcdf