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Questions and answers related to BUFR, Binary Universal Form for the Representation of Meteorological data, which is a binary code designed to represent any meteorological data

The Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data is a fileformat maintained by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). It is commonly used to encode measurements from weather stations and other meteorological measurements that are used by numerical weather models.

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How to get BUFR Soundings using Siphon from the University of Wyoming?

By using the codes below, I can succesfully get “TEMP Soundings” data from the University of Wyoming. (The website is http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html) import datetime from siphon.simplewebservice.wyoming import WyomingUpperAir date…
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Get Length of object in octects

I am needing to calculate the length of a dictionary in octects to conform to the BUFR standard which states: Total length of BUFR message, in octets (including Section 0) I have been able to find bytes, but not information for decoding octects.…
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How to read BUFR files in R

I am trying to read a BUFR binary in R for cyclone track forecasts. Trying to read the file using rasters since that worked on GRIB files, but are not successful as the files are not recognized.
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