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BUFR (Binary Universal Form for Representation of meteorological data) is a binary data format of maintained by WMO. The Metview BUFRinterface BUFR interface is based on ecCodes and can handle both GRIB BUFR edition 13 and edition 24 seamlessly.
How to use Metview with BUFR?
BUFR files are represented by this icon in the user interface:
The contents of a GRIB BUFR file can be inspected with the GRIB BUFR Examiner, which can be either started up from user interface (right-click examine on the icon) or from the command line using the following command:
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Visualisation on maps
GRIB (with the exception of spherical harmonics fieldsSome conventional BUFR observations types (such as SYNOP and TEMP) can be directly visualised in Metview on a map view. In the user interface just right-click visualise on the icon to get a plot with the default settings. GRIB map plots These plots can be further customised with the Contouring or Wind Plotting icons for scalar fields or vector fields, respectively.
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Observation Plotting icon.
Otherwise the general technique to visualise BUFR data is to extract a subset as Geopoints or CSV and then visualise the resulting data (see below).
Visualisation on other views
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