October 2019 software release

The October 2019 release of our software provides many fixes, improvements and new features!

ecCodes, the heart of GRIB and BUFR handling, brings its usual support for new GRIB parameters along with numerous fixes for extra stability. There are performance improvements for decoding/encoding GRIB data in a multi-threaded program as well as new options for the grib_ls and grib_dump tools.

Metview, ECMWF's interactive and batch software for manipulation and plotting of data, brings several new Macro/Python functions, including ml_to_hl(), which converts GRIB data from model levels to height above ground or sea level. Also in this release is an improved inline Help sidebar in the Code Editor.

CodesUI, the standalone combination of Metview's GRIB and BUFR examiners, added new tab called Descriptors to show all the expanded descriptors (metadata only) of the given message.

Magics, ECMWF's plotting library, adds some smaller fixes.

Metview's Code Editor offers a list of available functions and can open a web browser tab to the right place in the documentation for each one

Metview, Magics and ecCodes are all now available on conda through the conda-forge channel. Another way to get the binary installations is via RPM, e.g. through the links here.

Please note that when building from source, the minimum CMake version requirement is 3.6.

Metview is built at ECMWF with all the versions of our libraries listed in the table below, and all are included in the October 2019 Metview Bundle. The versions are available on all ECMWF computer systems as "new" versions. If you encounter any issues please feel free to send feedback to Software.Support@ecmwf.int.