This means that the application has gone through a thorough internal testing process and that all known technical issues have been resolved. It is now fully functional and ready to be released for general use.
GRIB encoding and decoding has been particularly well tested within the IFS and ecCodes replaces GRIB-API in the next operational cycle update.
BUFR encoding and decoding has been tested and work has started to replace BUFRDC with ecCodes in ECMWF operational software.
We would like to thank all those who tested and provided feedback during the beta phase.
This week saw the October 2016 release of the standard ECMWF software packages. This month sees small updates for most of our software packages, including updates in GRIB_API to support CY43R3, UERRA and ERA5. There is no change to BUFRDC.
All these packages use the same build system based on CMake - simplifying and harmonising the installation experience. The versions are available on all ECMWF computer systems as "new" versions. If you encounter any issues please feel free to send feedback to Software.Support@ecmwf.int.
| GRIB_API | 1.18.0 | GRIB API version 1.18.0 released |
| Emoslib | 4.4.4 | Versions 4.4.x / 00044x Updates (Includes Interpolation & BUFRDC) |
| BUFRDC | 000409 | BUFRDC 000409 released |
| Magics | 2.29.6 | Latest News |
| Metview | 4.7.2 | Version 4.7 Updates |
This 4.5-day training course was held at ECMWF from 26-30th September 2016. Participants learned how to use Metview to access, analyse, manipulate and visualise meteorological data through a series of lectures and tutorials. This work included familiarisation with Metview's core functionalities such as retrieving and filtering data from the MARS archive, working with observation data and producing geographical and other plots such as cross sections. These skills were then cemented through the use of case studies, including a session on working with ensemble data.
The training material can be found here.
