The August 2022 release of our software provides many new features, improvements and fixes! Note that the packages below are part of a much larger software stack used at ECMWF, and this is part of a release that is synchronised between all these packages.
ecCodes, the heart of GRIB and BUFR handling, brings several new features, improvements and fixes in version 2.27.0:
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Also note that the CMake option ENABLE_AEC is now ON by default. AEC (Adaptive Entropy Coding) provides the WMO GRIB CCSDS compression and decompression of data.
To force the build without it, use -DENABLE_AEC=OFF
Metview 5.17.0 brings a mix of new features, fixes and improvements including:
Metview's Python interface version 1.13.0 brings new features, including:
Metview is built at ECMWF with all the versions of our libraries listed in the table below, and all are included in the The Metview Source Bundle.
The Q Vector used in quasi-geostrophic (QG) theory is now available as function q_vector()
Metview's improved colour editor is available from any icon editor that contains a colour parameter
The software versions of this release are available on all ECMWF computer systems as "new" versions. On our Bologna HPC, they are installed into a single module called ecmwf-toolbox. Versions on conda should be available in the coming days. If you encounter any issues please feel free to use the ECMWF Support Portal.
ecCodes | 2.27.0 | Latest news |
Metview | 5.17.0 | Latest news |