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With the upcoming Implementation of IFS Cycle 47r1, this set of defaults is ready to handle the data produced, including all the new parameters introduced in this cycle.
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No Python 2 upgrade
As Python 2 reached its end of life on 1st January 2020, no newer versions of the Python 2 installations and their associated subpackages such as numpy and others. Older versions remain available for those who haven't migrated to Python 3. If you haven't done so yet, please see Migration to Python 3 for some guidance on where to start.
Metview improvements
Metview, ECMWF's interactive and batch software for manipulation and plotting of data, brings a number of new features and improvements, such as:
- easier access to the layer metadata in the interactive plot window
- a new set of pre-defined areas in the Geographical View icon
- improvements to the GRIB and BUFR examiners (and hence also in CodesUI)
- improvements to the existing thermodynamic functions
- plus a new function to compute relative humidity from temperature and dewpoint, a new way to control the font sizes in the user interface
Codes UI efficiency improvements
CodesUI, the standalone combination of Metview's GRIB and BUFR examiners, provides a highly improved initial BUFR message scan (about 50-100 times faster than before), a filter bar for the GRIB namespace list and extra information about BUFR elements.
A lot of other bugfixes and improvements
All the new versions, both ECMWF and 3rd Party, come with a number of bug fixes and improvements. You may see the Change logs for any individual package or library in the list below if you want to have all the details.
How to use the new versions for testing BEFORE the update
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