Package request: ecCodes
Description of package: ecCodes is a package developed by ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) which provides an application programming interface and a set of tools for decoding and encoding messages in the following formats:
WMO FM-92 GRIB edition 1 and edition 2
WMO FM-94 BUFR edition 3 and edition 4
WMO GTS abbreviated header (only decoding)
A useful set of command line tools provide quick access to the messages. C, Fortran 90 and Python interfaces provide access to the main ecCodes functionality.