What is BUFRDC

The WMO FM-94 BUFR, Binary Universal Form for the Representation of Meteorological data, is a binary code designed to represent, employing a continuous binary stream, any meteorological data. It has been designed to achieve efficient exchange and storage of meteorological and oceanographic data. It is self defining, table driven and very flexible data representation system, especially for huge volumes of data.

ECMWF provide BUFR User's Guide (pdf) and BUFR Reference Manual (pdf)  that describes latest BUFR tables and ECMWF observation types and subtypes. For each subtype there is a template describing the observation.

The first version of ECMWF BUFRDC software was designed and implemented in 1987. A great deal of experience has been gathered in handling binary coded observations since then.

Latest News

Version 000409 is the last BUFRDC full release. From this version on we will only release updated tables reflecting the latest changes in the WMO BUFR standard. We would recommend all users to consider migration to our new GRIB and BUFR encode/decoder ecCodes


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Please send an email to software.support@ecmwf.int or go to Issues if you have any suggestions for improvements or have discovered a bug with this software package.

Releases

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ZIP Archive bufrdc-wmo-39.tar.gz Feb 21, 2024 by Marijana Crepulja
ZIP Archive bufrdc-wmo-v40-v41.tar.gz Feb 21, 2024 by Marijana Crepulja
ZIP Archive bufrdc-wmo-38.tar.gz Sep 13, 2022 by Marijana Crepulja
ZIP Archive bufrdc_tables_wmo_v37.tar.gz Jan 04, 2022 by Marijana Crepulja
ZIP Archive bufrdc_tables_wmo_v36.tar.gz Jul 28, 2021 by Marijana Crepulja
ZIP Archive bufrdc_tables_wmo_v35.tar.gz Jan 25, 2021 by Marijana Crepulja
ZIP Archive bufrdc_tables_wmo_v33.tar.gz Dec 10, 2019 by Marijana Crepulja
ZIP Archive bufrdc_tables_wmo_v32.tar.gz Dec 04, 2019 by Marijana Crepulja
ZIP Archive bufrdc_000409_update.tar.gz Sep 02, 2019 by Marijana Crepulja
ZIP Archive bufrdc_tables-wmo_v31.tar.gz WMO BUFR Tables version 31 Jan 29, 2019 by Marijana Crepulja
ZIP Archive bufrdc_tables-4.1.2.tar.gz WMO BUFR Tables version 29 Jan 08, 2018 by Marijana Crepulja
ZIP Archive bufrdc_tables-4.1.1-Source.tar.gz WMO BUFR Tables version 28 May 30, 2017 by Marijana Crepulja
ZIP Archive bufrdc_000409.tar.gz Jun 29, 2016 by mac
ZIP Archive bufrdc_000405.tar.gz Jun 22, 2015 by mac
ZIP Archive bufrdc_000403.tar.gz Nov 20, 2014 by mac
ZIP Archive bufrdc_000402.tar.gz Aug 27, 2014 by mac
ZIP Archive bufrdc_000401.tar.gz Originally released 2014-06-18 Jun 20, 2014 by Daniel Varela Santoalla
ZIP Archive bufrdc_000400.tar.gz Originally released 2013-03-12 Jun 20, 2014 by Daniel Varela Santoalla
ZIP Archive bufrdc_000389.tar.gz Originally released 2012-03-30 Jun 20, 2014 by Daniel Varela Santoalla
ZIP Archive bufrdc_000388.tar.gz Originally released 2012-03-14 Jun 20, 2014 by Daniel Varela Santoalla
ZIP Archive bufr_000387.tar.gz Originally released 2011-02-18 Jun 20, 2014 by Daniel Varela Santoalla
ZIP Archive bufr_000386.tar.gz Originally released 2010-11-01 Jun 19, 2014 by Daniel Varela Santoalla
ZIP Archive bufr_000385.tar.gz Originally released 2010-07-07 Jun 19, 2014 by Daniel Varela Santoalla
ZIP Archive bufr_000384.tar.gz Originally released 2010-06-01 Jun 19, 2014 by Daniel Varela Santoalla
ZIP Archive bufr_000383.tar.gz Originally released 2010-02-24 Jun 19, 2014 by Daniel Varela Santoalla
ZIP Archive bufr_000381.tar.gz Originally released 2009-11-23 Jun 19, 2014 by Daniel Varela Santoalla
ZIP Archive bufr_000380.tar.gz Originally released 2009-07-28 Jun 19, 2014 by Daniel Varela Santoalla
ZIP Archive bufr_000370.tar.gz Originally released 2009-05-01 Jun 19, 2014 by Daniel Varela Santoalla
ZIP Archive bufr_000360.tar.gz Originally released 2008-09-29 Jun 19, 2014 by Daniel Varela Santoalla
ZIP Archive bufr_000351.tar.gz Originally released 2008-02-12 Jun 19, 2014 by Daniel Varela Santoalla
ZIP Archive bufr_000350.tar.gz Originally released 2007-11-29 Jun 19, 2014 by Daniel Varela Santoalla
ZIP Archive bufr_000340.tar.gz Originally released 2007-09-03 Jun 19, 2014 by Daniel Varela Santoalla
ZIP Archive bufr_000320.tar.gz Originally released 2007-04-05 Jun 19, 2014 by Daniel Varela Santoalla
ZIP Archive bufr_000310.tar.gz Originally released 2006-11-21 Jun 19, 2014 by Daniel Varela Santoalla
ZIP Archive bufr_000300.tar.gz Originally released 2006-05-04 Jun 19, 2014 by Daniel Varela Santoalla


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