The October 2023 release of our software provides 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
ecCodes, the heart of GRIB and BUFR handling, brings several new features, improvements and fixes in version 2.32.0:
- Support for the HEALPix grid
- GRIB2: Add support for encoding template 5.200 (Run length packing with level values)
- GRIB2: New/updated parameters
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
- See ecCodes Release Notes for full details
Please note some important changes in this release of ecCodes:
- The tigge_* tools have been removed (tigge_check, tigge_split etc)
- The grib1to2 script has been removed
Metview
Metview 5.20.0 brings HEALPix grid support thanks to ecCodes, MIR and Atlas, plus some fixes - see the release notes!
This release brings support for the HEALPix grid - note that direct plotting is not supported, so conversion to Geopoints is recommended
The software versions of this release are available on ECMWF's HPC as part of the module called ecmwf-toolbox (version 2023.10.0.0) and all are included in the The Metview Source Bundle. Versions on conda and brew should be available in the coming days. If you encounter any issues please feel free to use the ECMWF Support Portal.
| ecCodes | 2.32.0 | Latest news |
| Metview | 5.20.0 | Latest news |