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BUFRLIB Software User Guide
This document set describes how to utilize the NCEP BUFRLIB software to encode or decode
BUFR messages. It is not intended to be a primer on the BUFR code form itself;
rather, for that there are several good alternative resources available such as the
Guide to WMO Table-Driven Code Forms (FM 94 BUFR and FM 95 CREX), which provides a good,
basic layman's introduction, or even the
WMO Manual #306, Volume I.2, Part B
itself, which, although it is more of a technical document and thus contains all of
the minute details and regulations, is nonetheless the "official" documentation
of the BUFR code form. Therefore, throughout the document set, we will assume
at least some background knowledge of the basic concepts of BUFR and will thus
focus solely on how to use the BUFRLIB software to encode or decode data from this code form.
To view any of the documents in the set, click on the "Table of Contents" link which follows:
The NCEP BUFRLIB software is freely available, subject to the terms of the
usual NWS disclaimer,
and is downloadable as a UNIX tarfile.
After downloading and unpacking this tarfile (via "tar xvf"),
read and follow the instructions in the extracted file
"README_BUFRLIB" in order to compile the software. In addition, if
you would like to be automatically notified whenever the software is updated
or upgraded, please feel free to
join our mailing list.
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