Interpolation library (EMOSLIB)

The Interpolation library (EMOSLIB) includes Interpolation software and GRIB, BUFR, CREX encoding/decoding routines. It is used by the ECMWF meteorological archival and retrieval system (MARS) and also by the ECMWF graphics package Metview

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License

This software is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License which incorporates the terms and conditions of version 3 of the GNU General Public License.

Description

This software covers :

• Interpolating fields
  • spectral coefficients to spectral coefficients
  • spectral coefficients to rotated spectral coefficients
  • spectral coefficients to regular latitude-longitude grids
  • spectral coefficients to regular gaussian grids
  • spectral coefficients to quasi-regular gaussian grids
  • regular latitude-longitude grids to regular latitude-longitude grids
  • regular latitude-longitude grids to regular gaussian grids
  • regular gaussian grids to regular gaussian grids
  • regular gaussian grids to regular latitude-longitude grids
  • quasi-regular gaussian grids to regular latitude-longitude grids
  • quasi-regular gaussian grids to regular gaussian grids
• encoding/decoding WMO FM-92 GRIB GRIB code messages
• encoding/decoding WMO FM-94 BUFR BUFR code messages
• encoding/decoding WMO FM-95 CREX CREX code messages
• handling pure binary unix files
• handling files of GRIB products in an indexed manner
• multiple(Temperton's) FFT routines (from release 000340 onwards)

All of the above software which is included in the Interpolation library (EMOSLIB) was developed at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

A new cycle of this public version is created from time to time to consolidate operational extensions.

Roadmap

ECMWF is currently developing a replacement for the GRIBEX part of EMOSLIB called GRIB API. ECMWF also plans to rewrite the Interpolation (INTF) software. When production versions of these two components are ready, ECMWF will not develop GRIBEX and INTF any further.

Mailing list

Subscribers to the EMOSLIB library mailing list will receive information from time to time about EMOSLIB new releases. This is a hidden list, which means that the list of members is available only to the administrator.

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Merging with GRIB_API

• Version 000381 merges EMOS interpolation with grib_api encoder/decoder .
• More details about Migration to GRIB 2 edition available here.

Available versions

Available versions of the Interpolation library (EMOSLIB) are 000382,000381,000377,000376,000372,000371,000370,000360,000350, 000340, 000320, 000310, 000300.

The following instructions explain how to build the library and install:

1. Run first build_library script, to build the library
2. Then the install script, to install library and GRIB, BUFR, CREX tables and land-sea mask.

Local Definitions Templates refer to ECMWF local extensions to GRIB version 1, section 1 are in external files. Local definitions are described here.

From release 000310 onwards the Emos library can be compiled with Gnu compilers gcc and gfortran. The library compiled with those compilers has been tested on different kinds of data and for the majority of them the results are exactly the same as for the library built by the pgf90 compiler but in some cases they slightly differ.
Please, be aware that this type of library is not in operational use at ECMWF and it is not fully tested.

Latest changes

BUFR

• copy_spec_from_ksec.c : adjust constant for SECOND ORDER packing to be the same as in grib_util
• intuvs2.c, intuvp2.c, intf2.c : added estima for better memory managment
• intf2.c, intvect2,intuvp2 allow real 32 mode for Emos users
  

• issame.F: no check for param, level,leveltype, table
• estima.F: to estimate output arraay for gluing functions
• gasetup.F : applied RMISSGV
• issame.F: NOREPR is always set trough describe input field
  

A complete History of changes is also available.