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Please note that ecCodes is provided as beta version and some of its functions and tools can be changed prior to the first full release. Nevertheless the new BUFR decoding feature has been extensively tested with a wide variety of BUFR data. Note that the beta version of ecCodes provides only limited BUFR encoding functionality as the encoding of the data section has not been implemented. |
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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-
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- 92 GRIB edition 1
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- and edition 2
- WMO FM-
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- 94 BUFR edition 3
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- and edition 4
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- WMO
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- GTS abbreviated header (only decoding
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- ).
A useful set
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provide quick access to the messages. C, Fortran 90 and Python interfaces provide access to the main ecCodes functionality.
ecCodes is an evolution
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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,
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the GRIB-
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API functionality is provided fully in ecCodes with
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only minor interface and
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behaviour changes. Interfaces for C, Fortran 90 and Python are all maintained as in GRIB
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-API. However, the GRIB
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-API Fortran 77 interface is no longer available.
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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
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of GRIB-API
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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
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existing GRIB-API
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tools maintaining, where possible, the same options and behaviour. A significant difference compared with GRIB-API tools is that bufr_dump produces output
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in JSON format suitable for many web based applications.
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ecCodes is now the primary GRIB encoding/decoding package used at ECMWF. GRIB-API |
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is no longer maintained (as of December 2018). Replacing GRIB-API |
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with |
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ecCodes |
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is expected to be transparent for current GRIB-API |
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users. In particular the "grib_" functions are included in the ecCodes library. |
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A similar name clash is also present between the existing GRIB-API tools and the new tools provided with ecCodes. However, the behaviour of the tools is exactly as those provided with the current version of GRIB-API (which is ??).
Currently, ecCodes includes GRIB-API version 1.13.0 (or 1.13.1 ??). It will be updated to include new GRIB-API releases until ecCodes replaces GRIB-API.
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Users are strongly advised to start the migration process. |