Brian Blaylock blaylockbk

How to Install Eccodes on Ubuntu

Eccodes is an open source library made by ECMWF for reading and writing grib files, which is the most common file format for meteorological und oceanographic data in operational use (while in research, Netcdf is mainly used). If one wants to work with grib files seriously, one will have to install it earlier or later. On top of that, one will also have to make sure C and Python code is able to import the library's functionality.

First of all, I would highly recommend not to use anything else than Linux, preferably Ubuntu, for working with meteorological data, especially grib files. If you do not want to migrate to Linux completely, consider either a dual boot or a virtual machine.

I just show you the commands with minimal explanation.

Installing an older version with apt

ANSI Escape Sequences

Standard escape codes are prefixed with Escape:

Ctrl-Key: ^[
Octal: \033
Unicode: \u001b
Hexadecimal: \x1B
Decimal: 27

	#!/bin/bash

	# This script downloads and installs a specific version of VSCode Server for Linux.
	# The version is specified by the first argument to the script.
	# You can find the git commit id in the output of Remote - SSH plugin in VSCode.
	# The output looks like this:
	# ...
	# Using commit id "af28b32d7e553898b2a91af498b1fb666fdebe0c" and quality "stable" for server
	# ...

	#!/bin/bash

	# This script downloads and installs a specific version of VSCode Server for Linux.
	# The version is specified by the first argument to the script.
	# You can find the git commit id in the output of Remote - SSH plugin in VSCode.
	# The output looks like this:
	# ...
	# Using commit id "af28b32d7e553898b2a91af498b1fb666fdebe0c" and quality "stable" for server
	# ...

	///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	// BEGIN EDITS ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

	const TEMPLATE_FILE_ID = 'YOUR_TEMPLATE_FILE_ID_HERE';
	const DESTINATION_FOLDER_ID = 'YOUR_DESTINATION_FOLDER_ID_HERE';
	const CURRENCY_SIGN = '$';

	// END EDITS //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	// WARNING: EDITING ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE WILL CHANGE THE BEHAVIOR OF THE SCRIPT. //////////

	import datetime as dt
	import numpy as np

	def to_datetime(date: np.datetime64) -> dt.datetime:
	""" Converts a numpy datetime64 object to a python datetime object """
	timestamp = ((date - np.datetime64('1970-01-01T00:00:00'))
	/ np.timedelta64(1, 's'))
	return dt.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(timestamp)