We are happy to announce the December versions of the standard ECMWF software packages. This month's release featured mostly incremental updates to our packages. While much testing has been done and much care been taken, there might be still some impact on the contouring. Please let us know if you might see any regressions. ecCodes saw many smaller improvements, especially for the performance of BUFR handling. Metview offers new a large selection of layers and automatic styles based on the ecCharts web map service via its new EcCharts icon.
Metview now offers the ecCharts layers and styles (left), which are searchable and previewed in the icon editor (right).
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