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What is GRIB?

GRIB (GRIdded Binary or General Regularly-distributed Information in Binary form) is a common data format used in meteorology and standardised by the World Meteorological Organisation.

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  • eccodes:  a library developed at ECMWF consisting of a set of tools to code and decode GRIBs, among other formats. The eccodes command-line utilities are commonly used by the meteorology community. Please consult the page How to read GRIB files for an overview of the commands available.
  • CFGRIB: a Python interface to the eccodes library. It is one of the supported backend backends of Xarray.  Please consult the Open CEMS-Flood data page for examples.

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