Please note that ODB API is provided as beta version and some of its functions and tools can be changed prior to the first full release.
ODB API is a software developed at ECMWF for encoding and processing of observational data. It includes a SQL filtering and statistics engine, command line tools and APIs for C/C++, Fortran and Python. ODB API works with data format used in ECMWF observational feedback archive. Development of ODB API has been partially funded by the Met Office.
ECMWF
- COPE (Continuous Observation Processing Environment) and BUFR2ODB converter use ODB API to encode/decode observation data
- Observational feedback archive uses ODB API and its data format to encode data, build index (MARS server) and (optionally) filter retrieved data on the fly (MARS client)
- ECMWF Researchers use ODB API command line tools and Python or Fortran bindings to examine observational feedback data archived by their experiments in MARS
- ODB API is used by ECMWF visualisation software, Metview and Magics, to decode and filter observational feedback data
- OBSTAT uses ODB API to compute statistics of observational feedback data
ECMWF Copernicus Department
- Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) uses ODB API to encode historical observational data, which is then used as input of their global reanalysis
- ODB API is also used to compute statistics of observational feedback data produced by C3S reanalysis
MetOffice and Unified Model community
- Unified Model (UM) Community, lead by the Met Office, uses ODB API as part of their Observation Processing System (OPS). UM Community includes: UK MetOffice, India Meteorological Department, Korean Meteorological Administration, Australian Bureau of Meteorology and Naval Research Laboratory.
HIRLAM
- HIRLAM community uses ODB API as part of their cooperation with ECMWF on the development of COPE system.
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.
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